Anatole France

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."
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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 lent me."
Anatole France
"We chase dreams and embrace shadows."
Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
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"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."
Anatole France
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
Anatole France
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
Anatole France
"In art as in love, instinct is enough."
Anatole France
"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
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
"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
Anatole France
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Anatole France
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
Anatole France
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
Anatole France
"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
"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
"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
"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."
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
"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
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
Anatole France
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