Anatole France , born Anatole François Thibault, was a French author. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire.
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“It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly”
Anatole France
“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.”
“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
“Silence is the wit of fools.”
“I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men”
“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”
“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences”
“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
“One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.”
“Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned”