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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“Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.”
Anatole France
“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me”
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“Silence is the wit of fools.”
“Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned”
“Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“The future is a convenient place for dreams”
“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”