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Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Anatole France
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
Anatole France
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
Anatole France
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
Anatole France
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
Anatole France
Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
Anatole France
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anatole France
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France
God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
Anatole France
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
Anatole France
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
Anatole France
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
Anatole France
