Anatole France

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

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

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

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

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

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.