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Famous Anatole France Quotes
“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.”
“You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.”
“It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.”
“A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.”
“The impotence of God is infinite.”
“Intelligent women always marry fools”
“The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.”
“We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.”
“The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.”
“Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.”
“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”
“It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.”
“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
“The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.”
“We chase dreams and embrace shadows.”
“A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.”
“Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.”
“Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.”
“In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.”
“We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.”
“God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.”
“A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.”
“There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.”
“A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.”
“The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.”