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Anatole France Quotes(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Anatole_France_young_years.jpg/220px-Anatole_France_young_years.jpg)
A French poet, journalist, and novelist. Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.Here are some famous quotes by Anatole France.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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The future is hidden even from those who make it.
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To imagine is everything to know is nothing at all.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.
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When a thing has been said and well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.
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I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
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The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
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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.
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One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.
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All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.