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Anatole France Quotes

French writer (1844–1924)

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Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. A member of the Académie française, he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his literary achievements. He is widely believed to be the model for the narrator's literary idol "Bergotte" in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

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Pen Names: Anatolis Fransas
Alternative Names: Jacques François-Anatole Thibault • François-Anatole Thibault • Anatole Thibault

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Similar: Voltaire 74.5% George Bernard Shaw 71.8% Mark Twain 70.6% Friedrich Nietzsche 70.4% G. K. Chesterton 69.9% Denis Diderot 69.8% Michel de Montaigne 69.3% Oscar Wilde 69.2% Victor Hugo 68.9% Honoré de Balzac 68.6%
Il est bon que le cœur soit naïf et que l’esprit ne le soit pas.

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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.

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Les plus beaux mots du monde ne sont que de vains sons, si on ne les comprend pas.

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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

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On reproche aux gens de parler d’eux-mêmes. C’est pourtant le sujet qu’ils traitent le mieux.

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It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.

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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.

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Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre.

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

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L'art d'enseigner n'est que l'art d'éveiller la curiosité des jeunes âmes pour la satisfaire ensuite.

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Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.

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L'homme est ainsi fait qu'il ne se délasse d'un travail que par un autre.

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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

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Les hommes qui se sont occupés du bonheur des peuples ont rendu leurs proches bien malheureux.

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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

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