Anatole France

Our passions are ourselves.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

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

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 it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder__rom before my shelves of books!...

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another