Anatole France's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#14853
Of all the schools I attended, is truant who seemed the best.

Anatole France
(Le petit Pierre)

#14854
Know, know, that is the secret of happiness.

Anatole France
(Le livre de mon ami (1885))

#14855
I admire that he is so heavy in being so flat.

Anatole France
(Au sujet d'Émile Zola)

#14856
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)

#14857
The sense perceptions and judgments of the spirit are sources of illusion and the causes of uncertainty.

Anatole France
(Crainquebille)

#14858
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)

#14859
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)

#14860
According to custom it will always go for an honest man. We call people who do like the others.

Anatole France
(Crainquebille)

#14861
The style has the movement and image.

Anatole France
(Le Lys rouge)

#14862
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)

#14863
The taste being the sense of pleasure, it is refined in suffering.

Anatole France
(La Vie en fleur)

#14864
Live, is to act.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d'Epicure)

#14865
We ate the fruits of the art of science.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14866
We have lost faith, and we want to believe again.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14867
It is not enough to love passionately: you must also love with reason.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14868
We have no State. We have administrations.

Anatole France
(L'anneau d'améthyste)

#14869
I love to go mad.

Anatole France
(Histoire comique)

#14870
The future is a place convenient to put the dreams.

Anatole France
(Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard)

#14871
Everything is allowed in the ladies, and that everything that comes from them is grace and favor.

Anatole France
(Le crime de S. Bonnard)

#14872
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)

#14873
They are beautiful words haloed by the memory of their long-term use.

Anatole France
(La Vie littéraire)

#14874
It is good to eat. Eating is best.

Anatole France
(Les pensées de Riquet)

#14875
It is not love that resists the absence.

Anatole France
(La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

#14876
Poets help us to love.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d’Epicure)

#14877
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
(Source inconnue)

#14878
In instinct is the only truth.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14879
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)

#14880
Everything passes and is succeeded. Myself, I remain.

Anatole France
(Les pensées de Riquet)

#14881
It must renounce know, but do not renounce judge.

Anatole France
(Crainquebille)

#14882
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)

#14883
Right so nothing that an imaginary existence? And mythical characters are so not able to act on men?

Anatole France
(Putois)

#14884
Justice is the administration of the force.

Anatole France
(Crainquebille)

#14885
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)

#14886
The beautiful brings us the highest revelation of the divine that he be allowed to know.

Anatole France
(La vie littéraire)

#14887
Whatever we say, Catholicism is still the most acceptable form of religious indifference.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14888
The State, it is a lender and clumsy sitting behind a desk.

Anatole France
(Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

#14889
Observed in France, mostly, music critics are deaf and blind art critics. This allows them necessary to the aesthetic ideas recollection.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14890
A dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14891
We do not know what to make of this short life, and yet we to want to one another that is eternal.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14892
Cheerfulness is the kindest form of courage.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14893
The irony teaches us to make fun of scholars and fools, that, without it, we could have the weakness of hate.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14894
All the dead are poor.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14895
Only men that women are not interested in their toilet; those who like women never notice what they wear.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14896
We call morality usual customs. Bad manners, those to which it is point accustomed.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14897
The charity of the poor is to wish well to the rich.

Anatole France
(Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

#14898
Politicians are like horses, they can walk straight without blinkers.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14899
The so-called strategy is essentially to rivers on bridges and to cross the mountains by passes.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14900
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)

#14901
Every human creature is a different being, in each of those who watch.

Anatole France
(Le lys rouge)

#14902
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)

#14903
Sage mean wise. They say that a girl is wise when she knows nothing.

Anatole France
(L'île des pingouins)

#14904
We are the infinite love. This isn't the fault of the women.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14905
Believed to die for the fatherland; we die for industrialists.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14906
Dreams of philosophers have always aroused men of action who began to work to achieve. Our thought creates the future.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14907
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)

#14908
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)

#14909
We don't really like that when we love without reason.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14910
To give himself the joys of adultery, a pious person.

Anatole France
(Le Lys rouge)

#14911
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
(Source inconnue)

#14912
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)

#14913
There are more than lovers who have libraries, and it is known that this species of men never reads.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14914
Doubt doubt!

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14915
Men do not exist if they poorly understand the little they understand.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14916
Only the desire and idleness makes us sad.

Anatole France
(Le Lys rouge)

#14917
Virtue, like the Crow, nests in the ruins.

Anatole France
(La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

#14918
Old age which is a disqualification for the beings ordinary is, for men of genius, an apotheosis.

Anatole France
(Vie en fleur)

#14919
Is not the pure of heart who avoid the downpour, but people with an umbrella.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14920
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)

#14921
Old age would be really sad if the swarm of naughty thoughts rose sometimes came to console her.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14922
If the desire beautifies everything on which it arises, the desire of the unknown beautifies the universe.

Anatole France
(Le Livre de mon ami)

#14923
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)

#14924
Time, to compensate for all the treasures he removes us, give our thoughts an indulgence that youth do not know.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14925
The game is a body-to-body with destiny.

Anatole France
(Le Jardin d’Epicure)

#14926
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)

#14927
The real we used to make as well as some ideal. It is perhaps its largest utility.

Anatole France
(Le Jardin d’Epicure)

#14928
The dead lend themselves to reconciliation with extreme ease.

Anatole France
(Le Jardin d’Epicure)

#14929
The poet invented the nymph, but nature had already created the ocean, the cloud and the woman.

Anatole France
(Le livre de mon ami)

#14930
Science cares neither to please nor offend, it is inhuman.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14931
There is no popular Governments. To govern is dissatisfying.

Anatole France
(Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

#14932
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)

#14933
Jealousy is a woman that the wound of self-love.

Anatole France
(Le lys rouge)

#14934
Curiosity excites the desire more than the memory of the pleasure.

Anatole France
(La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

#14935
Worlds die, since they are born.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d’Epicure)

#14936
Life teaches that we're never happy at the cost of some ignorance.

Anatole France
(La vie littéraire)

#14937
In history, it must resolve to much to ignore.

Anatole France
(Pierre Nozière)

#14938
History is condemned by a defect of nature, the lie.

Anatole France
(Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

#14939
Live without illusions, this is the secret of happiness.

Anatole France
(Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

#14940
Justice is the sanction of the established injustices.

Anatole France
(Crainquebille)

#14941
It is not in literature a single opinion that don't easily fight by the contrary view.

Anatole France
(Le Jardin d’Epicure)

#14942
To die is to perform an act of incalculable significance.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d’Epicure)

#14943
It is the certainty that they hold the truth that makes cruel men.

Anatole France
(Les dieux ont soif)

#14944
In love, a woman lends itself rather than she gives herself.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14945
A good opponent is always conservative.

Anatole France
(Les Sept Femmes de Barbe-Bleue)

#14946
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)

#14947
The men were once what they are at present, i.e. mediocre good and little bad.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14948
The most beautiful words in the world are just unnecessary sounds if you can't understand them.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14949
Ignorance is our peace; the lie, our happiness.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14950
We're never bored when there's trouble.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14951
The simple style is similar to white clarity. It is complex, but it seems not.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14952
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
(Source inconnue)

#14953
Long stroke your sentence and she'll smile.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14954
It repents of mistakes that is no longer in condition to commit.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14955
He must forgive to yourself to get used to forgive a lot to others.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14956
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
(Source inconnue)

#14957
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)

#14958
The irony is the gaiety and joy of wisdom.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14959
The devil is always put on the side of the scientists.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14960
The lure of danger is at the bottom of all great passions.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14961
What we pride ourselves became infamous when it was the enemy who does.

Anatole France
(Dernières pages inédites)

#14962
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)

#14963
Men love between them, when they do not know.

Anatole France
(La vie littéraire)

#14964
Man does not believe what is, he thinks he wants anyone.

Anatole France
(Dernières pages inédites)

#14965
These alone make you beautiful confessions who still love their faults.

Anatole France
(La vie littéraire)

#14966
The reason is what scares most about a madman.

Anatole France
(Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

#14967
History is not a science, it's an art. It was successful only by the imagination.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d’Epicure)

#14968
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)

#14969
Because they could live more, she was about to go and see if God deserves to be known.

Anatole France
(La vie littéraire)

#14970
The love of men is low, but it grows in painful slopes and leads to God.

Anatole France
(Le lys rouge)

#14971
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)

#14972
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)

#14973
Defeated God become Satan, Satan winner will become God.

Anatole France
(La révolte des anges)

#14974
There, in life, the part of chance. Chance, ultimately, it is God.

Anatole France
(Le Jardin d’Epicure)

#14975
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)

#14976
A pretty face? It's as if you decide according to the bottle cap.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14977
For most men, it is an example that discouraging the serenity of a pig.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14978
Promises we do a pretty girl only bind the skin.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14979
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
(Source inconnue)

#14980
I have enemies and I'm proud of: I think have deserved them.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14981
One who contradicts himself is more likely than another to express sometimes of the real.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14982
When they have no priests, the gods become very easy to live.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14983
Without money, the saying goes, not in Switzerland! Not Swiss, either.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14984
The son believe in the virtue of their mother - girls too, but less.

Anatole France
(L'anneau d'améthyste)

#14985
Many take things, the dictionary is the book by excellence: all books are in it, is more than to pull them.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14986
Sympathy is the sweet privilege of mediocrity.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14987
The best books are those that have never been written.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#14988
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)

#14989
August just task is to ensure to everyone his due, the rich rich and the poor his poverty.

Anatole France
(Crainquebille)

#14990
As one advances in life, one realizes that the rarest courage is the one to think.

Anatole France
(La vie littéraire)

#14991
If one day science reigns alone, gullible men will more than scientific credulities.

Anatole France
(L'hypnotisme dans la littérature)

#14992
God, in his goodness, wants that one time saves us; There now will be the last.

Anatole France
(La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

#14993
The truths discovered by intelligence remain sterile. The heart is only able to fertilize his dreams.

Anatole France
(Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

#14994
I want to my imperfection as to my reason for being.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d’Epicure)

#14995
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)

#14996
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)

#14997
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)

#14998
We call people who do like the others.

Anatole France
(Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet)

#14999
When the laws are fair, men will be fair.

Anatole France
(Monsieur Bergeret à Paris)

#15000
All changes, even the most desired, have their melancholy.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15001
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
(Source inconnue)

#15002
History books which contain no lies are very annoying.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15003
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15004
We live too much in the books and not enough in the nature.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d’Epicure)

#15005
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
(Source inconnue)

#15006
The flesh of women feeds of caresses like the bee to flowers.

Anatole France
(Le lys rouge)

#15007
The artist must love life and show us that she is beautiful. Without him, we in douterions.

Anatole France
(Le jardin d’Epicure)

#15008
Blame the rich: their goods surrounding them and do not penetrate them.

Anatole France
(Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard)

#15009
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)

#15010
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)

#15011
In art as in love, the instinct is enough.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15012
Question of doubt.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15013
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)

#15014
Without the lie, the truth would perish of despair and boredom.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15015
Without irony, the world would be like a forest without birds.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15016
Sweet it is to believe, even in hell.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15017
Women and doctors know only how much lying is necessary and beneficial to men.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15018
The book is the opium of the West.

Anatole France
(La vie littéraire)

#15019
The good critic is one who tells the adventures of his soul in the middle of the masterpieces.

Anatole France
(La Vie littéraire)

#15020
Holy Mother of God, you who have conceived without sin, give me the grace to Sin without design.

Anatole France
(Sur la pierre blanche)

#15021
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)

#15022
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)

#15023
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)

#15024
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)

#15025
A woman is free when it is not unnecessary lies.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15026
It is by believing in roses that we make them hatch.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15027
Which is admirable, is not that the field of stars is so vast, it is that the man has measured it.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15028
The past is the only human reality. That is, is everything.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15029
Criticized for people to talk about themselves. It's the topic at hand best.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15030
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
(Source inconnue)

#15031
Lose nothing of the past. It was only with the past we do the future.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15032
Then, as I studied anything, I learned a lot.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15033
The public place, repeat this is prove.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15034
Better understand bit poorly understand.

Anatole France
(La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

#15035
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)

#15036
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)

#15037
A woman without breasts is a bed without pillows.

Anatole France
(La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque)

#15038
The worst of all sexual aberrations, is chastity.

Anatole France
(Source inconnue)

#15039
Christianity has done much to love in doing a sin.

Anatole France
(Le Jardin d’Epicure)

#15040
Youth is beautiful she can admire without understanding.

Anatole France
(La Vie littéraire)

#15041
What men call civilization, is the current state of Vice and this they call barbarism, the previous States.

Anatole France
(Sur la pierre blanche)

#15042
The future is a place convenient to put dreams.

Anatole France
(Les Opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

#15043
Of all the schools I've attended, is truant who seemed the best.

Anatole France
(Le Petit Pierre)

#15044
The State is like the human body. The functions he performs are not noble.

Anatole France
(Les opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard)

#15045
The great works of this world have always been completed by madmen.

Anatole France
(Le lys rouge)

#15046
I've always preferred the madness of the passions to the wisdom of indifference.

Anatole France
(Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard)

#15047
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)

#15048
Look, there are never only yourself.

Anatole France
(Le Petit Pierre)

#15049
The moderates still somewhat oppose violence.

Anatole France
(L’Ile des pingouins)

#15050
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd way.

Anatole France
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