About Anatole France:
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole FranceAn education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole FranceThat man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole FranceWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France