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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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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Anatole France
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
Anatole France
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
Anatole France
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
Anatole France
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
Anatole France