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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

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  • It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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  • It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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  • Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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  • Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
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  • 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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  • Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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  • 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.
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  • Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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  • Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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  • One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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  • Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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  • Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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  • Silence is the wit of fools.
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  • 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.
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  • That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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  • The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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  • The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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  • The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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  • The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
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  • The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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