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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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.”
Anatole France
“A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows”
“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy”
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them”
“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.”
“The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it”