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Quotations By Anatole France

Beliefs

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Beliefs

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Death

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.

Death

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

Enthusiasm

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Equality

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.

Fool

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Happiness

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Life

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. -- Anatole France