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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
