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Quotes from The White Stone — Anatole France

1844–1924 France

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The gods conform scrupulously to the sentiments of their worshippers: they have reasons for so doing.

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The greatest changes in social life are wrought imperceptibly, and are only seen from afar.

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A couple of centuries later, in the time of Constantine, both pagans and Christians will have, so to speak, the same morals and philosophy.

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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.

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Upon the whole, humanity changes little. What has been shall be.

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It was unable to substitute itself for paganism until such time as paganism came to resemble it, and itself came to resemble paganism.

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The great human asset is man himself.

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You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.

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The Emperor Julian's morals were almost those of St. Gregory Nazianzen.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anatole France (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.