Quotes By 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
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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
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
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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
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
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France