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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“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”
Anatole France
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
“The impotence of God is infinite”
“All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious”
“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing”
“To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.”
“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.”
“It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.”
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
“The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.”