Anatole France Quote

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other who cries, makes it sacred.


Le jardin d'Epicure (1895)


Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other who cries, makes it sacred.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other who cries, makes it sacred.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other who cries, makes it sacred.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other who cries, makes it sacred.