Anatole France quotes - page 5

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. (Anatole France)
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state. View quote
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. View quote
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid. View quote
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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. View quote
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice. View quote
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. View quote
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Blessed be Thy name. Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. View quote
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A couple of centuries later, in the time of Constantine, both pagans and Christians will have, so to speak, the same morals and philosophy. View quote
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But what matter that men should be no longer submissive to Ialdabaoth if the spirit of Ialdabaoth is still in them; if they, like him, are jealous, violent, quarrelsome, and greedy, and the foes of the arts and of beauty? What matter that they have rejected the ferocious Demiurge, if they do not hearken to the friendly demons who teach all truths; to Dionysus, Apollo, and the Muses? As to ourselves, celestial spirits, sublime demons, we have destroyed Ialdabaoth, our Tyrant, if in ourselves we have destroyed Ignorance and Fear." View quote
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You appear to me to have no arts and not to work in metals. But your hearts are pure and your hands are innocent, and the truth will easily enter into your souls. (Anatole France)
Beyond that, it was impossible to obtain a word from the valiant chief, and this silence seemed the mark of a genius sure of himself. View quote
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Upon the whole, humanity changes little. What has been shall be. View quote
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Night hung its blue over the garden. Satan fell asleep. View quote
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Satan found pleasure in praise and in the exercise of his grace; he loved to hear his wisdom and his power belauded. View quote
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When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. View quote
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They did not fear men, for they did not know them, and had never received any harm from them; and there was in the monk a certain gentleness that reassured the most timid animals and that pleased these penguins extremely. View quote
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O Lord, my God, I recognise Thy voice! View quote
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The great human asset is man himself. View quote
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And Satan had himself crowned God. View quote
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Satan, whose flesh had crept, in days gone by, at the idea that suffering prevailed in the world, now felt himself inaccessible to pity. (Anatole France)
It was unable to substitute itself for paganism until such time as paganism came to resemble it, and itself came to resemble paganism. View quote
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Nevertheless, at that moment a saint ruled over the Church. View quote
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The Emperor Julian's morals were almost those of St. Gregory Nazianzen. View quote
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In thee I confirm the right and power to decide matters of doctrine, to regulate the use of the sacraments, to make laws and to uphold purity of morals. And the faithful shall be under obligation to conform thereto. My Church is eternal, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Thou art infallible. Nothing is changed. View quote
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