Quotes By 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
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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 isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France