Quotes by : Anatole France

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part of....

I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that....

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.....

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and his pretension itself is a very great....

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the....

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?....