No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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Anatole France

Anatole France

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: French

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Suffering! 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.