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Anatole France [1844-1924] French

Rank: 101
Novelist, Poet

Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.

Chance, Art, Education, Equality, Wisdom, Beauty, Change, Courage, Dreams, Fear, Future, Good, Great, Happiness, Imagination, Inspirational, Life, Love, Men, Nature, Pet, Religion, Teacher, Truth, War, Women, Work

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.	Dreams, Great	101
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.	Pet	102
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.	Beauty	103
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.	Life	104
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.	Wisdom	105
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 know and what you don't.	Education	106
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.	Imagination	107
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.		108
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.	Love, Work	109
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.	Inspirational	110
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.		111
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.	Equality	112
In art as in love, instinct is enough.	Art	113
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.	Education	114
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.	Fear, Future	115
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.	Good, Nature	116
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.		117
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.	Truth	118
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.	Men	119
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.	Art, Teacher	120
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.	Change	121
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.	Women	122
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.	Happiness	123
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.		124
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.		125
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.		126
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.		201
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.		202
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.	War	203
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.		204
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.		205
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.		206
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.		207
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.		208
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.		209
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.	Religion	210
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.	Equality	211
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.		212
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.		213
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.	Wisdom	214
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.	Chance	215
Silence is the wit of fools.		216
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.		217
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.		218
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.	Courage	219
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.	Chance	220
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.		221
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.		222
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.		223
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.		224
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!	Chance	225
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.		226
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.		301
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.		302
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.		303
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.		304

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