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Quotations by author » Anatole France
French Writer, member of the French Academy and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, 1844-1924
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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.
GiftsPoverty
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men
Books
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one
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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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In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing
Wealth
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom
Irony
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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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ActionIdeasLivingPeople
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Fashion
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown
Talent
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg
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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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