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.

Quote by Anatole France

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Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain...

Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain...

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind...

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind...

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

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

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

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Silence is the wit of fools.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

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

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

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him...

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him...

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan,...

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan,...

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value...

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value...

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use:...