Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. Guns, Germs And Steel
Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a way of embracing happiness as if they wanted to crush and suffocate it, from jealousy: alas, they know only too well that it will flee. Beyond Good and Evil
The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself. The Inspector General
Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature. Book IV
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