“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”
“Silence is the wit of fools.”
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.”
“What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.”
“Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
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