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Anatole France has 173 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
• We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
• God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
• The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of…
• 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…
• What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
• There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
• The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of…
• A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
• We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that…
• The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

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