Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTMilitary men are the scourges of the world.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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