Anatole France

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind…

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven…

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who…

In art as in love, instinct is enough…

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom…

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil…

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall…

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of…

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one…

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all…

Nine tenths of education is encouragement…

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best…

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin…

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan…

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you…