Anatole France
Anatole France , born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Found 34 thoughts of Anatole France
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
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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.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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. . .everyone took an interest in the conversation, for each one was interested in what he or she said.
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The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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...it is not by reflection and intelligence, but by perception, that the highest and purest truths are attained.
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The people who have no weakness are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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