“Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.”
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“We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
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“The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.”
“Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.”
“Fear could never make virtue.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.”