“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
GodAll Quotes by Anatole France
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Change“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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
Nature“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
Happiness“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“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Education“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
Fear“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
Art“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”
Dreams“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Nature“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“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“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
God“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
Imagination“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Pet“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Wisdom“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Art