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Good Quotes by Anatole France
- A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
- It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human…
- Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
- You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
- Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload…
- Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
- God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my…
- It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
- In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
- Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
- Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
- The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
- 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…
- All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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