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 changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCEFor the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCEStupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCEDictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCEBut I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
ANATOLE FRANCEAs to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCEWithout lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEWhen a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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