Anatole France quotes

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. (Anatole France)
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole France
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France)
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.
Anatole France
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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
The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads.
Anatole France
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
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
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. (Anatole France)
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France