Anatole France Quotes
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- Anatole France
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
- Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
- 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.
- Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
- Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
- Anatole France
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France
People who don’t count won’t count.
- 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.
- Anatole France
Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.
- Anatole France
Wandering re establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
- Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- 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.
- Anatole France
Religion has done love a great survive by making it a sin.
- Anatole France
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
- Anatole France


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