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Anatole France's quotes

« Of all the schools I attended, is truant who seemed the best. »
Anatole France (Le petit Pierre)

« Know, know, that is the secret of happiness. »
Anatole France (Le livre de mon ami (1885))

« I admire that he is so heavy in being so flat. »
Anatole France (Au sujet d'Émile Zola)

« You never know if you acted well towards men. He must love them without trying to understand them. Their wisdom is mysterious. »
Anatole France (Les pensées de Riquet)

« The sense perceptions and judgments of the spirit are sources of illusion and the causes of uncertainty. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« Everything is in shape, and there is between the crime and the innocence that the thickness of a sheet of stamped paper. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« How do you want posterity to judge fairly all the dead? How to question them in the shade where they flee? As soon as we could be fair to them, we forget them. »
Anatole France (Putois)

« According to custom it will always go for an honest man. We call people who do like the others. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« The style has the movement and image. »
Anatole France (Le Lys rouge)

« The past is our only walk and the only place where we can escape from our daily annoyances, to our miseries, to ourselves. The present is dry and cloudy, the future is hidden. All the wealth, all the splendor of the world is in the past. »
Anatole France (La Vie en fleur)

« The taste being the sense of pleasure, it is refined in suffering. »
Anatole France (La Vie en fleur)

« Live, is to act. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d'Epicure)

« We ate the fruits of the art of science. »
Anatole France

« We have lost faith, and we want to believe again. »
Anatole France

« It is not enough to love passionately: you must also love with reason. »
Anatole France

« We have no State. We have administrations. »
Anatole France (L'anneau d'améthyste)

« I love to go mad. »
Anatole France (Histoire comique)

« The future is a place convenient to put the dreams. »
Anatole France (Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard)

« Everything is allowed in the ladies, and that everything that comes from them is grace and favor. »
Anatole France (Le crime de S. Bonnard)

« The present is dry and cloudy, the future is hidden. All the wealth, all the glory, all the grace of the world is in the past. »
Anatole France (La vie en fleur)

« They are beautiful words haloed by the memory of their long-term use. »
Anatole France (La Vie littéraire)

« It is good to eat. Eating is best. »
Anatole France (Les pensées de Riquet)

« It is not love that resists the absence. »
Anatole France (La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

« Poets help us to love. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« In instinct is the only truth. »
Anatole France

« The French language is a woman. And this woman is beautiful so proud, if modest, bold, touching, voluptuous, chaste, noble, familiar, crazy, wise, we love him with all his soul, and that one is never tempted to be unfaithful to him. »
Anatole France

« O afraid afraid August and maternal, Holy and salutary, penetrates me, so that I avoid what could hurt me. »
Anatole France (Les Pensées de Riquet)

« Everything passes and is succeeded. Myself, I remain. »
Anatole France (Les pensées de Riquet)

« It must renounce know, but do not renounce judge. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« I'm still in the middle of everything, and men, animals, and things are stored, hostile or friendly, around me. »
Anatole France (Les pensées de Riquet)

« Right so nothing that an imaginary existence? And mythical characters are so not able to act on men? »
Anatole France (Putois)

« Justice is the administration of the force. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« Justice is social. It is given with fixed rules and not with the thrills of the flesh and the light of intelligence. Especially do not ask him to be fair, she didn't need to be since it is justice. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« The beautiful brings us the highest revelation of the divine that he be allowed to know. »
Anatole France (La vie littéraire)

« Whatever we say, Catholicism is still the most acceptable form of religious indifference. »
Anatole France

« The State, it is a lender and clumsy sitting behind a desk. »
Anatole France (Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

« Ignorance is the necessary condition for the happiness of the people and it must be recognized that in most cases, they fill her up well. »
Anatole France (Les dieux ont soif)

« Sage mean wise. They say that a girl is wise when she knows nothing. »
Anatole France (L'île des pingouins)

« Observed in France, mostly, music critics are deaf and blind art critics. This allows them necessary to the aesthetic ideas recollection. »
Anatole France

« A dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order. »
Anatole France

« We do not know what to make of this short life, and yet we to want to one another that is eternal. »
Anatole France

« Cheerfulness is the kindest form of courage. »
Anatole France

« The irony teaches us to make fun of scholars and fools, that, without it, we could have the weakness of hate. »
Anatole France

« All the dead are poor. »
Anatole France

« Only men that women are not interested in their toilet; those who like women never notice what they wear. »
Anatole France

« We call morality usual customs. Bad manners, those to which it is point accustomed. »
Anatole France

« The charity of the poor is to wish well to the rich. »
Anatole France (Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

« Politicians are like horses, they can walk straight without blinkers. »
Anatole France

« The so-called strategy is essentially to rivers on bridges and to cross the mountains by passes. »
Anatole France

« The love of the past is innate in humans. The past moves to the environment the child and grandmother; the past is our only walk and the only place where we can escape from our daily annoyances, to our miseries, to ourselves. »
Anatole France (La Vie en fleur)

« Every human creature is a different being, in each of those who watch. »
Anatole France (Le lys rouge)

« We are the infinite love. This isn't the fault of the women. »
Anatole France

« Believed to die for the fatherland; we die for industrialists. »
Anatole France

« Dreams of philosophers have always aroused men of action who began to work to achieve. Our thought creates the future. »
Anatole France

« Thinking is a disease to a few individuals and who would not spread without promptly bringing the end of the species. »
Anatole France (Les opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

« We don't really like that when we love without reason. »
Anatole France

« To give himself the joys of adultery, a pious person. »
Anatole France (Le Lys rouge)

« The poor have an inclination to give to poor than them... When one lives from day to day, is not changing its State to be stripped... Give when you have, that's difficult. »
Anatole France (Le Figaro - 17 Janvier 1900)

« Love is a simple and primitive Act. It is the struggle that's hatred. Violence is necessary. Love by mutual consent is a tedious chore. »
Anatole France

« We call dangerous who have the spirit is other than us and immoral who do not have our morality. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« There are more than lovers who have libraries, and it is known that this species of men never reads. »
Anatole France

« Doubt doubt! »
Anatole France

« Men do not exist if they poorly understand the little they understand. »
Anatole France

« Only the desire and idleness makes us sad. »
Anatole France (Le Lys rouge)

« Virtue, like the Crow, nests in the ruins. »
Anatole France (La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

« Old age which is a disqualification for the beings ordinary is, for men of genius, an apotheosis. »
Anatole France (Vie en fleur)

« Is not the pure of heart who avoid the downpour, but people with an umbrella. »
Anatole France

« Irony and pity are two good Trustees; one, smiling, we makes life friendly. the other, who is crying, we makes it sacred. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« Old age would be really sad if the swarm of naughty thoughts rose sometimes came to console her. »
Anatole France

« If the desire beautifies everything on which it arises, the desire of the unknown beautifies the universe. »
Anatole France (Le Livre de mon ami)

« Is there an unbiased story? How does a historian judge that a fact is notable or not? He arbitrarily judging. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« Time, to compensate for all the treasures he removes us, give our thoughts an indulgence that youth do not know. »
Anatole France

« The game is a body-to-body with destiny. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« What makes what we want and that we love, it is a sweet and terrible, more powerful than the beauty force. »
Anatole France (Le lys rouge)

« The real we used to make as well as some ideal. It is perhaps its largest utility. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« The dead lend themselves to reconciliation with extreme ease. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« The poet invented the nymph, but nature had already created the ocean, the cloud and the woman. »
Anatole France (Le livre de mon ami)

« Science cares neither to please nor offend, it is inhuman. »
Anatole France

« There is no popular Governments. To govern is dissatisfying. »
Anatole France (Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

« Evil is not live but to know that we are living. Evil is to know and want to. »
Anatole France (Le puits de Sainte-Claire)

« Jealousy is a woman that the wound of self-love. »
Anatole France (Le lys rouge)

« Curiosity excites the desire more than the memory of the pleasure. »
Anatole France (La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

« Worlds die, since they are born. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« Life teaches that we're never happy at the cost of some ignorance. »
Anatole France (La vie littéraire)

« In history, it must resolve to much to ignore. »
Anatole France (Pierre Nozière)

« History is condemned by a defect of nature, the lie. »
Anatole France (Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

« Live without illusions, this is the secret of happiness. »
Anatole France (Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

« Justice is the sanction of the established injustices. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« It is not in literature a single opinion that don't easily fight by the contrary view. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« To die is to perform an act of incalculable significance. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« It is the certainty that they hold the truth that makes cruel men. »
Anatole France (Les dieux ont soif)

« In love, a woman lends itself rather than she gives herself. »
Anatole France

« A good opponent is always conservative. »
Anatole France (Les Sept Femmes de Barbe-Bleue)

« The poor without desire has the greatest treasures; He has to himself. The rich man who covets is only a miserable slave. »
Anatole France (Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard)

« The men were once what they are at present, i.e. mediocre good and little bad. »
Anatole France

« The most beautiful words in the world are just unnecessary sounds if you can't understand them. »
Anatole France

« Ignorance is our peace; the lie, our happiness. »
Anatole France

« We're never bored when there's trouble. »
Anatole France

« The simple style is similar to white clarity. It is complex, but it seems not. »
Anatole France

« The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. »
Anatole France

« Long stroke your sentence and she'll smile. »
Anatole France

« It repents of mistakes that is no longer in condition to commit. »
Anatole France

« He must forgive to yourself to get used to forgive a lot to others. »
Anatole France

« Do not lend your books: nobody does ever make them. The only books I have in my library are books you lent me. »
Anatole France

« What we like in goodness, this isn't the price that it costs, it's good that she made. »
Anatole France (Le livre de mon ami)

« The irony is the gaiety and joy of wisdom. »
Anatole France

« The devil is always put on the side of the scientists. »
Anatole France

« The lure of danger is at the bottom of all great passions. »
Anatole France

« What we pride ourselves became infamous when it was the enemy who does. »
Anatole France (Dernières pages inédites)

« The civil war is less despicable than the war with other countries. We know at least why it is beating. »
Anatole France (Dernières pages inédites)

« Men love between them, when they do not know. »
Anatole France (La vie littéraire)

« Man does not believe what is, he thinks he wants anyone. »
Anatole France (Dernières pages inédites)

« These alone make you beautiful confessions who still love their faults. »
Anatole France (La vie littéraire)

« The reason is what scares most about a madman. »
Anatole France (Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

« History is not a science, it's an art. It was successful only by the imagination. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« The men him more often argue for words. It's for words they kill and are killed more readily. »
Anatole France (Le Mannequin d'osier)

« Because they could live more, she was about to go and see if God deserves to be known. »
Anatole France (La vie littéraire)

« The love of men is low, but it grows in painful slopes and leads to God. »
Anatole France (Le lys rouge)

« All moral beauty is accomplished in this world by the inconceivable wisdom that comes from God and looks like madness. »
Anatole France (Le Lys Rouge)

« We do not despise science without despising the reason; We do not despise the reason without despising the man; We do not despise the man without offending God. »
Anatole France (L'orme du mail)

« Defeated God become Satan, Satan winner will become God. »
Anatole France (La révolte des anges)

« There, in life, the part of chance. Chance, ultimately, it is God. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« A pretty face? It's as if you decide according to the bottle cap. »
Anatole France

« For most men, it is an example that discouraging the serenity of a pig. »
Anatole France

« I believe in love, I believe in beauty, I believe in justice and I believe nevertheless that in this earth the good outweighs the bad and that men will create God. »
Anatole France (Le Roman de Dieu)

« Promises we do a pretty girl only bind the skin. »
Anatole France

« Common sense tells us that the Earth is fixed and that the Sun revolves around men who live down under walk upside down. »
Anatole France

« I have enemies and I'm proud of: I think have deserved them. »
Anatole France

« One who contradicts himself is more likely than another to express sometimes of the real. »
Anatole France

« When they have no priests, the gods become very easy to live. »
Anatole France

« Without money, the saying goes, not in Switzerland! Not Swiss, either. »
Anatole France

« The son believe in the virtue of their mother - girls too, but less. »
Anatole France (L'anneau d'améthyste)

« Many take things, the dictionary is the book by excellence: all books are in it, is more than to pull them. »
Anatole France

« Sympathy is the sweet privilege of mediocrity. »
Anatole France

« The best books are those that have never been written. »
Anatole France

« What is a book? A series of small signs. Nothing more. It is to the reader to draw itself shapes, colors and the feelings that these signs correspond. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« August just task is to ensure to everyone his due, the rich rich and the poor his poverty. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille)

« As one advances in life, one realizes that the rarest courage is the one to think. »
Anatole France (La vie littéraire)

« If one day science reigns alone, gullible men will more than scientific credulities. »
Anatole France (L'hypnotisme dans la littérature)

« God, in his goodness, wants that one time saves us; There now will be the last. »
Anatole France (La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

« The truths discovered by intelligence remain sterile. The heart is only able to fertilize his dreams. »
Anatole France (Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

« I want to my imperfection as to my reason for being. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« There is always a time when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always put on the side of the scientists. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« The rest of men, who doesn't know what to do with this life, wants another, that end point. »
Anatole France (La révolte des anges)

« When the man who testifies is armed with a sword, it is the sword to hear and not the man. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet)

« We call people who do like the others. »
Anatole France (Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet)

« When the laws are fair, men will be fair. »
Anatole France (Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

« All changes, even the most desired, have their melancholy. »
Anatole France

« The law, in a great concern of equality, forbids the rich as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. »
Anatole France

« History books which contain no lies are very annoying. »
Anatole France

« If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. »
Anatole France

« We live too much in the books and not enough in the nature. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« Have a woman choose: with a beloved man of women, she is not alone; with a man that women dislike, she is not happy. »
Anatole France

« The flesh of women feeds of caresses like the bee to flowers. »
Anatole France (Le lys rouge)

« The artist must love life and show us that she is beautiful. Without him, we in douterions. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« Blame the rich: their goods surrounding them and do not penetrate them. »
Anatole France (Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard)

« In art as in love, the instinct is enough. »
Anatole France

« Universal peace will happen someday because men will become better but because a new order, a new science, new economic necessities will impose them the peaceful State. »
Anatole France (Sur la pierre blanche)

« I love the truth. I believe that humanity needs it; but she needs more large yet the lie that flatters her, console, gives him endless expectations. Without the lie, it would perish of despair and boredom. »
Anatole France (La Vie en fleur)

« Question of doubt. »
Anatole France

« Poets help us to love: they only serve to it. And it's a pretty nice job of their delicious vanity. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« Without the lie, the truth would perish of despair and boredom. »
Anatole France

« Without irony, the world would be like a forest without birds. »
Anatole France

« Sweet it is to believe, even in hell. »
Anatole France

« Women and doctors know only how much lying is necessary and beneficial to men. »
Anatole France

« The book is the opium of the West. »
Anatole France (La vie littéraire)

« The good critic is one who tells the adventures of his soul in the middle of the masterpieces. »
Anatole France (La Vie littéraire)

« Holy Mother of God, you who have conceived without sin, give me the grace to Sin without design. »
Anatole France (Sur la pierre blanche)

« It is in the absolute ignorance of our reason for being is the root of our sadness and our dislikes. »
Anatole France (Le jardin d’Epicure)

« A woman without breasts is a bed without pillows. »
Anatole France (La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

« The worst of all sexual aberrations, is chastity. »
Anatole France

« I call reasonable one who gives his reason with the universal reason, so as to be never too surprised at what happens and to settle there as well as. »
Anatole France (Le Petit Pierre)

« There are some impiety to walk together the immutable, absolute truth, and this sort of imperfect and provisional truth called science. »
Anatole France (L'Orme du mail)

« Eyes and all our senses are just messengers of errors and letters of lies. They abuse us more that they teach us. »
Anatole France (La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

« A woman is free when it is not unnecessary lies. »
Anatole France

« It is by believing in roses that we make them hatch. »
Anatole France

« Which is admirable, is not that the field of stars is so vast, it is that the man has measured it. »
Anatole France

« The past is the only human reality. That is, is everything. »
Anatole France

« Criticized for people to talk about themselves. It's the topic at hand best. »
Anatole France

« The things themselves are neither large nor small, and when we find that the universe is vast, it is a very human idea. »
Anatole France

« Lose nothing of the past. It was only with the past we do the future. »
Anatole France

« Then, as I studied anything, I learned a lot. »
Anatole France

« The public place, repeat this is prove. »
Anatole France

« Better understand bit poorly understand. »
Anatole France (La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

« The heart is mistaken as the spirit; mistakes are no less deadly, and it is more difficult to dispose because of the sweetness that interfere. »
Anatole France (Le Petit Pierre)

« The Republic... corruption probably seems larger than it was in monarchies. This is due to the number and diversity of people who come to power. »
Anatole France (L’Orme du mail)

« Christianity has done much to love in doing a sin. »
Anatole France (Le Jardin d’Epicure)

« Youth is beautiful she can admire without understanding. »
Anatole France (La Vie littéraire)

« What men call civilization, is the current state of Vice and this they call barbarism, the previous States. »
Anatole France (Sur la pierre blanche)

« The future is a place convenient to put dreams. »
Anatole France (Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

« Of all the schools I've attended, is truant who seemed the best. »
Anatole France (Le Petit Pierre)

« The State is like the human body. The functions he performs are not noble. »
Anatole France (Les opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

« The great works of this world have always been completed by madmen. »
Anatole France (Le lys rouge)

« I've always preferred the madness of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. »
Anatole France (Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard)

« The people doing the languages. He makes graphic and clear, vivid and striking. If scientists were doing them, they would be deaf and heavy. »
Anatole France (Propos de rentrée)

« Look, there are never only yourself. »
Anatole France (Le Petit Pierre)

« The moderates still somewhat oppose violence. »
Anatole France (L’Ile des pingouins)

« It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd way. »
Anatole France

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