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Man Quotes by Anatole France
- He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
- A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
- We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
- The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
- Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will…
- An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately,…
- The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
- In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
- That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
- The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
- Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
- Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
- The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
- For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,…
- The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
- A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women dont like, and have no…
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