We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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