If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!


Marie de France

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J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments
ANATOLE FRANCE
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
ANATOLE FRANCE
He despises men with tenderness
ANATOLE FRANCE
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere
ANATOLE FRANCE
The impotence of God is infinite
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
ANATOLE FRANCE
The future is a convenient place for dreams
ANATOLE FRANCE
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself
ANATOLE FRANCE
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffe...
ANATOLE FRANCE
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows
ANATOLE FRANCE
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the ...
ANATOLE FRANCE
It has been a big distraction. We haven't announced the final penalty for Chad yet. We don't expect ...
BRIAN FRANCE
This is the maximum amount of power we can currently test. We suspect the coil is even more powerful...
DANIELLE FRANCE
I think there's a tremendous ripple effect. For a species like the grizzly, it's an indicator specie...
TOM FRANCE
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom
ANATOLE FRANCE
As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys diff...
TODD FRANCE
Silence is the wit of fools.
ANATOLE FRANCE
It's not a flag I look at (as) anything favorable.
BRIAN FRANCE
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown
ANATOLE FRANCE
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent
ANATOLE FRANCE
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
ANATOLE FRANCE