Quotes Anatole France

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignoranc...

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or...

An education which does not cultivate the will is an educati...

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want ...

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish...

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against th...

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream....

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull....

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

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me...

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a fooli...

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads....

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

In art as in love, instinct is enough....

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

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

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lo...

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

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, ...

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

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness....

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between g...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only boo...

Nine tenths of education is encouragement....