“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain ne…” — Anatole France

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

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.