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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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More quotes by Anatole France
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
Anatole France
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Anatole France
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
Anatole France
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
Anatole France
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Anatole France
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
Anatole France
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
