The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
ANATOLE FRANCENine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCENever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCEDictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEHe would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhen a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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