Author Profile
Anatole France
1844 – 1924 • French • Novelist
56
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 56 quotesI thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.— Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.— Anatole France
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.— Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.— Anatole France
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.— Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.— Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.— Anatole France
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.— Anatole France
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.— Anatole France