Anatole France Quotes

The Law ... Allows Rich As Well As Poor To Sleep Under Bridges.

Human Affairs Inspire In Noble Hearts Only Two Feelings-admiration Or Pity.

Justice Is The Sanction Of Established Injustice.

I Do Not Know Any Reading More Easy, More Fascinating, More Delightful Than A Catalogue.

I Ought Not To Fear To Survive My Own People So Long As There Are Men In The World; For There Are Always Some Whom One Can Love.

It Is By Acts, And Not By Ideas, That People Ensure The Bar Down The Street Cannot Have A Patio.

The Arab Who Built Himself A Hut With Marbles From The Temple Of Palmyra Is More Philosophical Than All The Curators Of The Museums Of London, Paris, And Munich.

That Child Whose Mother Has Never Smiled Upon Him Is Worthy Neither Of The Table Of The Gods Nor The Couch Of The Goddesses.

Custom Alone Regulates Morals.

Distrust Even Mathematics; Albeit So Sublime And Highly Perfected, We Have Here A Machine Of Such Delicacy It Can Only Work In Vacuo, And One Grain Of Sand In The Wheels Is Enough To Put Everything Out Of Gear. One Shudders To Think To What Disaster Such A Grain Of Sand May Bring A Mathematical Brain. Remember Pascal.

All The Good Writers Of Confessions, From Augustine Onwards, Are Men Who Are Still A Little In Love With Their Sins.

Nothing Spoils A Confession Like Repentance.