History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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- In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.