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Anatole France

Anatole France

French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921)

Lived from: 1844 - 1924

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 16 april 1844 Died: 12 october 1924

  • One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
  • There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
  • When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
  • Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
  • Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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  • Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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  • 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 do know and what you don't.
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  • An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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  • Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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  • I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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  • It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
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  • It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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  • It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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  • A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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  • 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.
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  • Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
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  • History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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  • I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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  • If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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  • If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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  • If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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  • Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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  • In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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  • Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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  • It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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What are the most famous quotes from Anatole France?

The two most famous quotes from Anatole France are:

  • "Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of 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 do know and what you don't."

When did Anatole France live?

Anatole France was born in 1844 and died in the year 1924.