All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEDictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
More Anatole France Quotes
-
-
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCE -
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
As 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 FRANCE -
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
All ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE







