To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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
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
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France
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
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
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
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France