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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.

Anatole France's Popular Quotes

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

- Anatole France

It is not customary to love what one has.

- Anatole France

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

- Anatole France

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

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The more you say, the less they remember.

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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

- Anatole France