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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
— Anatole France
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
— Anatole France
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
— Anatole France
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
— Anatole France
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
— Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
— Anatole France
People who don't count won't count.
— Anatole France
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
— Anatole France
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
— Anatole France
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
— Anatole France
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
— Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
— Anatole France
Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it? — Richard Yates
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
— Anatole France
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
— Anatole France
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
— Anatole France
The adventure of the soul among the masterpieces.
— Anatole France
Our passions are ourselves.
— Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
— Anatole France
All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.
— Anatole France
The more you say, the less they remember.
— 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
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.
— Anatole France
We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
— Anatole France
I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.
— Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
— Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
— Anatole France
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
— Anatole France
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
— Anatole France
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
— Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
— Anatole France
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
— 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
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
— Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
— Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
— Anatole France
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
— Anatole France
I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
— Anatole France
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
— Anatole France
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
— Anatole France
The impotence of God is infinite.
— Anatole France
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
— Anatole France
If you have not loved an animal, your soul remains unawakened.
— Anatole France
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
— Anatole France
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
— Anatole France
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
— Anatole France
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
— Anatole France
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
— Anatole France
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
— Anatole France
It is good to collect things, it is better to take walks.
— Anatole France
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
— Anatole France
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
— Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
— Anatole France
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
— Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
— Anatole France
It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
— Anatole France
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
— Anatole France
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
— Anatole France
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
— Anatole France
Ninety percent of education is encouragement.
— 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
The best sentence? The shortest.
— 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 lent me.
— Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
— Anatole France
Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all!
— Anatole France
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
— Anatole France
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
— Anatole France
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
— Anatole France
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
— Anatole France
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
— Anatole France
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
— Anatole France
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
— Anatole France
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
— Anatole France
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
— Anatole France
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
— Anatole France
The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges of Paris.
— Anatole France
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
— Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
— Anatole France
When it does not yield to the rudder," said he to them, "the ship yields to the rock.
— Anatole France
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
— Anatole France
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
— Anatole France
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
— 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
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
— Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
— Anatole France
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
— Anatole France
Intelligent women always marry fools
— Anatole France