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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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Anatole France
“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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
“Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
“Silence is the wit of fools.”
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”
“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”