Anatole France Quotes
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
Life teaches us that we are never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
A good critic is one who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
