“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
Truth
“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
HistoryAll Quotes by Anatole France
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Education“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”
Best“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“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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”
Dreams“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
History“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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Nature“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
Imagination“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“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Wisdom“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Art“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
Happiness“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
Education“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
Fear“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
God