Anatole France , born Anatole François Thibault, was a French author. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire.
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“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Anatole France
“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
“Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another”
“Unhappiness does make people look stupid”
“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom”
“There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant”
“We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes”
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”