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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“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”
Anatole France
“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”
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice”
“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments”
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”