Anatole France

Anatole France.

Born	Jacques Anatole Thibault April 16, 1844 Paris, France
Died	October 12, 1924 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France

French author. Works include La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque [At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque] (1893) and Le Jardin d'Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1895). Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.

The repository contains three quotes from Anatole France.

Luck

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Education • Knowledge

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 do know and what you don’t.

Recreation • Work

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.