Anatole France

“The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”

“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.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”

“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”

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

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”