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View Plans“ ”It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. A member of the Académie française, he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his literary achievements. He is widely believed to be the model for the narrator's literary idol "Bergotte" in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
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View PlansSuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Puesto que la riqueza y la civilización producen motivos de guerra como la pobreza y la barbarie, y puesto que la locura y la maldad de los hombres son incorregibles, se puede realizar una acción meritoria. Un hombre prudente amontonará bastante dinamita para hacer estallar el planeta, y cuando se desparramen sus fragmentos por el espacio se habrá conseguido en el Universo una mejora imperceptible, se habrá dado una satisfacción a la conciencia universal, que indudablemente no existe.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.