Anatole France Short Quotes

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It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.

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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.

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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.

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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

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All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

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You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

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The state is like the human body. Not all of its functions are dignified.

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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

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The good critic is one who tells of his mind's adventures among masterpieces.

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If thirty-six million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Sometimes misquoted as: If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.

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When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

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Every vice you destroy has a corresponding virtue, which perishes along with it.

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Drink! The flies have not spoilt my vintage; the vines were dry before they came.

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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.

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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.

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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

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