“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
“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.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Anatole France
“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“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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
History“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“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
Men“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
God“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Nature“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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
Nature“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“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Pet“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
Truth“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
Happiness“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
Great“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Art“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Education“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
Education“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Wisdom“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