Anatole France “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me. ”
Anatole France “It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. ”
Anatole France “Unhappiness does make people look stupid. ”
Anatole France “Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. ”
Anatole France “Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ”
Anatole France “Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ”
Anatole France “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 life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ”