“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
“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.”
CourageAll Quotes by Anatole France
“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.”
Work“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
Fear“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“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“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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
Great“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
Wisdom“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Nature“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“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
Truth“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.”
God“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
Education“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
Nature“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Education“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
Happiness“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Pet“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
Men“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”
Best“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Art