309 Quotes by Anatole France

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Change is the essence of life.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

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.