Anatole France Quotes

Feel the Power of Belief in Anatole France's Quotes

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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Good angels are fallible. They sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
All 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.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.