Anatole France Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”

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

“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”

“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.”

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

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

“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.”