Quotes by France, Anatole

"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."

France, Anatole on adversity
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"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 do know and what you don't."

France, Anatole on education
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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

France, Anatole on education
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"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."

France, Anatole on egotism   

"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."

France, Anatole on enthusiasm   

"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on fashion
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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

France, Anatole on the future   

"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."

France, Anatole on greed   

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

France, Anatole on growth
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"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."

France, Anatole on history and historians   

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."

France, Anatole on nature   

"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."

France, Anatole on humankind   

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

France, Anatole on ignorance   

"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

France, Anatole on innocence   

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

France, Anatole on innocence   

"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."

France, Anatole on irony   

"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

France, Anatole on lies and lying
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"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."

France, Anatole on love
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"It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit."

France, Anatole on money   

"It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong."

France, Anatole on morality   

"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."

France, Anatole on nature   

"When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

France, Anatole on plagiarism   

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

France, Anatole on art   

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."

France, Anatole on bargains   

"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."

France, Anatole on poverty and the poor   

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

France, Anatole on poverty and the poor
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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."

France, Anatole on sanity   

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

France, Anatole on action
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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

France, Anatole on belief
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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."

France, Anatole on books - reading   

"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."

France, Anatole on censorship   

"The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign."

France, Anatole on chance   

"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name."

France, Anatole on chance
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"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot."

France, Anatole on understanding
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"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."

France, Anatole on words
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"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."

France, Anatole on criticism   

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

France, Anatole on curiosity
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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. "

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