01c. 1884 ADUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.Anatole France / quote ↗
02c. 1884 ADAll changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France / quote ↗
03c. 1884 ADTo accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!Anatole France / quote ↗
06c. 1884 ADIt is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.Anatole France / quote ↗
07c. 1884 ADIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.Anatole France / quote ↗
08c. 1884 ADWe have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.Anatole France / quote ↗
09c. 1884 ADThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France / quote ↗
10c. 1884 ADAn 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.Anatole France / quote ↗
11c. 1884 ADNever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.Anatole France / quote ↗
13c. 1884 ADTo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)Anatole France / quote ↗
15c. 1884 ADIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)Anatole France / quote ↗
16c. 1884 ADIf we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.Anatole France / quote ↗
18c. 1884 ADI never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.Anatole France / quote ↗
20c. 1884 ADFor the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.Anatole France / quote ↗
22c. 1884 ADThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.Anatole France / quote ↗
23c. 1884 ADSuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! 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.Anatole France / quote ↗
24c. 1884 ADAll writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.Anatole France / quote ↗
