Anatole France - Sacred Quotes

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

Anatole France

Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took a vow to serve the Lord. His time was divided, according to the rule, between the singing of hymns, the study of grammar, and the meditation of eternal truths.

Anatole France

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

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