Quotes by Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.