In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Anatole FranceI thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole FranceAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
Anatole FranceTruth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France