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Quote of Anatole France - As we get older, we realise...


Biography - Anatole France:

French poet, journalist and novelist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1924
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

As we get older, we realise that the rarest courage is that of thinking.



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(French)



French
À mesure qu'on s'avance dans la vie, on s'aperçoit que le courage le plus rare est celui de penser.




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What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.




Quotes for: to think


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Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





I think, therefore I am.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes for: courage


Quotes

Quotes about courage:


Have courage to use your own reason!





The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.





Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.





It is better to trust in ability than in luck.











Quotes

Anatole France also said...


That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.





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.





In art as in love, instinct is enough.





I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.





To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.





War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.












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