Anatole France quotes

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

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.

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.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

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.

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

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.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

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.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

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.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.