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The secret of success is sincerity.
Close your eyes, all you see is yours.
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
During war we imprison the rights of man.
There are truths which can kill a nation.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.
Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.
There are no great people. There are only great topics.
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.
Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.