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In every well-governed state w...

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Anatole France 254 quotes

He flattered himself on being ...

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Anatole France 254 quotes

We have drugs to make women sp...

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

Anatole France 254 quotes

God forbids suicide, and is un...

God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.

Anatole France 254 quotes

The heart errs like the head; ...

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

Anatole France 254 quotes

A good critic is the man who d...

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

Anatole France 254 quotes

It is almost impossible system...

It is almost impossible 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 distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France 254 quotes

What men call civilization is ...

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Anatole France 254 quotes

There is a certain impertinenc...

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Anatole France 254 quotes

The Arab who built himself a h...

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

Anatole France 254 quotes

A writer is rarely so well ins...

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Anatole France 254 quotes

We find it hard to picture to ...

We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

Anatole France 254 quotes

The mania of thinking renders ...

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

Anatole France 254 quotes

I am a physician. I keep a dru...

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

Anatole France 254 quotes

Men are not created to know, m...

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

Anatole France 254 quotes

People who have no weaknesses ...

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France 254 quotes

Word-carpentry is like any oth...

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

Anatole France 254 quotes

For every monarchy overthrown ...

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

Anatole France 254 quotes

The future is a convenient pla...

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

Anatole France 254 quotes

It is by acts, and not by idea...

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Anatole France 254 quotes

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