309 Quotes by Anatole France

But don’t you ever tell me the Revolution will bring equality, because men’ll never be equal. It’s just not possible. They can turn the country upside down and inside out, there’ll always be the big people and the little people, the fat ones and the thin ones.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

It’s not by amusing oneself that one learns.

We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don’t.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing. In democracies it is the only sacred thing.

To accomplish great things we must not only dream but also act, must not only plan but also believe.

An animal is, properly speaking, a soul; I do not say an immortal soul. And yet, when I come to consider the positions this poor little beast and I myself occupy in the scheme of things, I recognize in both exactly the same right to immortality.