Anatole France Quotes - Page 3

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• What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

  Anatole France

  Literature, Conversation, Madmen

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Education, School, Mind

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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

  Anatole France

  Happiness, Ignorance, Inner Peace

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: The opinions of Jérôme Coignard”

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

  Anatole France

  Heart, Knowledge, Mind

  "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.

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• It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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  Wisdom, Math, Men

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• The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

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  Positive, Integrity, Heart

  Anatole France (1922). “Anatole France and His Circle: Being His Table-talk”

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• It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

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  Wise, Goes On, Walks

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• America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

  Anatole France

  Law, America, Thanks

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• Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

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  Mean, Justice, Injustice

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• Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

  Anatole France

  Phrases, Ends, Caress

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• What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

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  Past, Men, Civilization

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

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  Fashion, Thinking, Fools Day

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1885.

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• For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

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  Ignorance, Blessing, Men

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• To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Ideas, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

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  Girl, Regret, Past

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• It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

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  Political, Poor, Forbidden

  Anatole France (2008). “Crainquebille”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

  Anatole France

  Aberration, Literature, Chastity

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• Silence is the wit of fools.

  Anatole France

  Silence, Literature, Fool

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• I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

  Anatole France

  Fate, Literature, Poverty

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• A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

  Anatole France

  Adventure, Men, Criticism

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• True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Differences, Ability, Knows

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• Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

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  Ignorance, Men, Conquer The World

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• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Boredom, Humanity

  "The last word on lying" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 1999.

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• 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.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Education, Book

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• We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

  Anatole France

  Thank God, Different, World

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