Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a read more

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a read more

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.