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- The people who have no weakness are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), Sylvester Bonnard
- He who lives little, changes little.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), Sylvester Bonnard
- Who ever enters here, honors me; who ever does not-- pleases me.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), Sylvester Bonnard
- Be gentle and learn how to suffer. When one suffers patiently, one suffers less.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), Sylvester Bonnard
- No one gives as much as he who gives hope.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- . . .everyone took an interest in the conversation, for each one was interested in what he or she said.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Our pains are no excuse for slandering the world.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Ignorance is a necessary condition of human happiness, and it must be owned that in most cases we fulfill it well. We know almost nothing about ourselves; absolutely nothing about our neighbors. Ignorance constitutes our peace of mind; self- deception our felicity.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Gods are Thirsty
- I have no objection on principle to make to the guillotine. Nature, my only mistress and my only instructress, certainly offers me no suggestion to the effect that a man's life is of any value; on the contrary, she teaches in all kinds of ways that it is of none. The sole end and object of living beings seems to be to serve as food for other beings destined to the same end. Murder is of natural right; therefore, the penalty of death is lawful, on condition it is exercised from no motives either of virtue or of justice, but by necessity or to gain some profit thereby. However, I must have perverse intincts, for I sicken to see blood flow, and this defect of character all my philosophy has failed so far to correct.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Gods are Thirsty
- I love reason, but I am no fanatic in my love. Reason is our guide and beacon-light; but when you have made a divinity of it, it will blind you and instigate you to crime.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Gods are Thirsty
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