Quote by Anatole France
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

Other quotes by Anatole France

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in womens clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. – Anatole France

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

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Fear
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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. – Anatole France

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War
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No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus. – Cicero

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Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. – John Wesley

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. – André Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot

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