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Category: Anatole France

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

Future, Man, Hopes

Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Soul, Animal, Loved

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

God, Want, Sign

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!

Art, Earth, Think

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.

God, Government, Free

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Men, Clothes, Never

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Love, Down, Lovers

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.

Sleep, Law, Rich

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.

Sleep, Law, Rich

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

Art, Curiosity, Purpose

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Good, Evil, Good And Evil

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.

Work, Speak, Studying