More quotes by Anatole France

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me."