Anatole France's Quotes

Anatole France's Quotes 28

You learn to speak by speaking to study by studying to run by running to...

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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

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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and...

The truth is that life is delicious horrible charming frightful sweet...

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes....

To imagine is everything to know is nothing at all.

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one...

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

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

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law...

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to...

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves...

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much...

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

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

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we...

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