Anatole France Quotes

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France

Between, Universe, Once

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

Wisdom, Joy, Reflection

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France

Madman, Sane, Frightens

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France

Happy, Ignorance, Person

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France

God, Chance, Perhaps

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France

Dream, Existence

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

Foolish, Million

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France

Life, Ignorance, Water

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France

Good, Often, Virtue

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

Education, Nine

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France

Good, Soul, Among

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France

Honest, Unless, Cheated

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France

Education, Mind, Cultivate

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France

Poor, Pay, Virtue

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.
Anatole France

God, Government, Free

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France

Sexual, Chastity, Strangest

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France

Him, Makes, Worst

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France

Men, Mind, Thoughts

Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France

Silence, Fools, Wit

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.
Anatole France

Life, Good, Courage

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France

Fear, Future, Nor

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France

Life, Another, Last

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France

Everybody, Books, Nobody

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France

Wise, Fool, Himself

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France

Greatest, Curiosity, Virtue

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: April 16, 1844

Died: October 12, 1924

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