Anatole France

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. ↗

— Anatole France

#bores #charm #gives #irritates #me

Silence is the wit of fools. ↗

— Anatole France

#silence #wit

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. ↗

— Anatole France

#gives #good #life #owe #pity

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ↗

— Anatole France

#events #fears #future #hopes #man

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. ↗

— Anatole France

#average #average man #does #forever #know

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. ↗

— Anatole France

#books #everybody #nobody #reads #those

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. ↗

— Anatole France

#greatest #man #perhaps #virtue

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ↗

— Anatole France

#bread #bridges #equality #face #forbids

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. ↗

— Anatole France

#abstention #bring #disappear #every #men

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

— Anatole France

#best #people #reproach #subject #talking