Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole Francewas a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1844
CountryFrance
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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.
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Custom alone regulates morals.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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.