Guy de Maupassant — French Writer born on August 05, 1850, died on July 06, 1893

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms... (wikipedia)

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.