The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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