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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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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
Anatole France
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Anatole France
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
Anatole France
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Anatole France
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
Anatole France
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
Anatole France
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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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
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
Anatole France
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Anatole France
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Anatole France
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
