Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole Francewas a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1844
CountryFrance
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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.