A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France Quote

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 Quote

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
- Anatole France Quote

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
- Anatole France Quote

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
- Anatole France Quote

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
- Anatole France Quote

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
- Anatole France Quote

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
- Anatole France Quote

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- Anatole France Quote

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
- Anatole France Quote

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
- Anatole France Quote

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.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
- Anatole France Quote

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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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.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France Quote

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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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 Quote

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
- Anatole France Quote

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- Anatole France Quote

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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