Quotes from book

Sur l'eau

“We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.”

Guy De Maupassant book Sur l'eau

Sur l’eau (1888)

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”

Guy De Maupassant book Sur l'eau

Variant translation: Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Sur l’eau (1888)

“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 book Sur l'eau

Sur l’eau (1888)

“Military men are the scourges of the world.”

Guy De Maupassant book Sur l'eau

Sur l’eau (1888)