Anatole France Quotes - Page 7

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

  Anatole France

  Ideas, People, Bars

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• I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

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  Book, Reading, Easy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.6, Anatole France

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• Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

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  Confession, Repentance, Spoil

  Anatole France (1911). “On Life & Letters”

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• Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

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  Love, Religion, Done

  "The Garden of Epicurus". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.

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  Science, Thinking, Sublime

  Anatole France (1920). “The garden of Epicurus”

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• There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

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  Book, Reading, Ugly

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• A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

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  Order, Dictionary, Alphabetical Order

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• No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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  God, Government, Pseudonyms

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• What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

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  Climbing, Bridges, Rivers

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• Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

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  Tyrants, Democracy, Virtue

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1945, Delphi Classics

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• The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

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  Art, Adventure, Soul

  La Vie litt‚raire (The Literary Life, 1888) dedicatory letter

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• The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

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  Thinking, Mania, Activity

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• Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

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  Peace, Men, Order

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• Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

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  Life, Two, Inspire

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• Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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  Humor, Reflection, Joy

  "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.

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• The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

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  Sleep, Law, Bridges

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• I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

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  Men, Long, People

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.78, Anatole France

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• That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

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  Mother, Children, Tables

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Museums

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