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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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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Anatole France
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Anatole France
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole France
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
Anatole France
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
Anatole France
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Anatole France
Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Anatole France
