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

  Anatole France

  Democracy, Sacred Things, Wealth

  L'Ile des pingouins (Penguin Island, 1908) pt. 6, ch. 2

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• You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

  Anatole France

  Writing, Editing, Sentences

  "Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary". Book by Jean-Jacques Brousson, 1925.

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

  Anatole France

  Writing, Inspired, Wells

  Anatole France (1924). “On life & letters”

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• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

  Anatole France

  Money, Business, Credit

  "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.

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• Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

  Anatole France

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

  Anatole France

  Men, Choices, Doubt

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

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• I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Knowledge, Science

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• The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

  Anatole France

  Men, Age, Energy

  Anatole France (2015). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France”, p.66, 谷月社

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• When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Book, History

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• It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

  Anatole France

  Clothes, Moral, Influence

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• A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

  Anatole France

  Writing, Simple, Light

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• People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

  Anatole France

  People, Weakness, Way

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.115, Anatole France

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

  Anatole France

  Often Is, Literature, Innocence

  "The Gods Are Thirsty". Book by Anatole France, 1912.

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• For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Sky, Republic

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• Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

  Anatole France

  Understanding, Way, Philosopher

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• Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.

  Anatole France

  Animal, Soul, Dormant

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• Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

  Anatole France

  Blood, Giving, Dying

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

  Anatole France

  Military, Heaven, Public Opinion

  Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.36, Xist Publishing

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• The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Science, Men

  Anatole France, James Lewis May, Bernard Miall (1926). “The works of Anatole France in an English translation”

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• It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Life, Nature, Believe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.130, 谷月社

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• Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

  Anatole France

  Fate, Gambling, Hands

  Anatole France (1924). “The Works of Anatole France”

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• Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

  Anatole France

  Animal, Men, Literature

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1918.

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

  Anatole France

  Beautiful, Errors, Order

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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• We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Eye, Science

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• The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

  Anatole France

  Light, Giving, Literature

  Anatole France (1924). “On life & letters”

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