Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou must render: never report.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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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.
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The only certainty is death.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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