“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
Great
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Anatole France
“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Pet“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
Education“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“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“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Art“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“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
Truth“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference 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“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”
Best“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“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 imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
Imagination“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
Art“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
History