Biography quotes of guy de maupassant

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Life#White#Soul

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Sick#Fever#Body

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Fear#Past

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Good Things#Good Things In Life

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#War#Eggs#Political

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.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Government#People#Politics

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools.

As the mediocrities and the fools always f