Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Anatole France
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
Tyrants
Jealousy
Preserves
Democracy
Virtue
Democracies
More quotes by Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
Anatole France
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
Anatole France
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
Anatole France
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Anatole France
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
Anatole France
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Anatole France
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
Anatole France
Intelligent women always marry fools
Anatole France
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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
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