Anatole France Quotes - Page 6

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

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  Beautiful, Errors, Order

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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

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  Animal, Men, Literature

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1918.

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• History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

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  Lying, Book, History

  "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard". Book by Anatole France, 1881.

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• 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.

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  Stars, Eye, Science

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• The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

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  Light, Giving, Literature

  Anatole France (1924). “On life & letters”

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• It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

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  Deception, Talent, Deceiving

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.76, Anatole France

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

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Should

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1935, Delphi Classics

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• The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

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  Nature, Science, Men

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• The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

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  Sleep, Law, Bridges

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• Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

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  Happiness, Miserable, Neighbor

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

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• Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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  Work, Men, Labor Day

  The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard pt. 2, ch. 4 (1881)

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• Custom alone regulates morals.

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  Morality, Moral, Customs

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.130, 谷月社

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• Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

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  Justice, Cynical, Injustice

  Anatole France (2008). “Crainquebille”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

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• Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

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  Friendship, Dog, Heart

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1266, Delphi Classics

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• Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

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  Women, Ugly, May

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.31, Anatole France

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• It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

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  Sex, Pretty Woman, Easy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

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  Love Is, Law, Making Love

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

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  Moral, Opinion, Manners

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

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  Cheating, Thinking, People

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

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  Men, Giving, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

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  Book, Reading, Library

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

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  Ignorance, Errors, Water

  "Pierre Noziere". Book by Anatole France, 1899.

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• It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

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  Learning, Amusing, Oneself

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• Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

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  Respect, Heart, Two

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• All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

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  Men, Littles, Augustine

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