The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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
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