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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Anatole France
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Anatole France
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Anatole France
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
Anatole France
It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Anatole France
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Anatole France
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Anatole France
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Anatole France
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
