309 Quotes by Anatole France

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

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.

Silence is the wit of fools.