Anatole France's Quotes

Anatole France's Quotes 68

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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

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;...

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven...

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

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

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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