Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCEYet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEI prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEIn art as in love, instinct is enough.
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 FRANCEOur passions are ourselves.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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