An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.


Victor Hugo

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I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
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An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
SENEGALESE PROVERB
I'd rather to be in your hell, than to be alone in a paradise.
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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise
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Je vois de la lumière neuve
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell
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You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
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I'd rather be a victor than a victim.
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The path to paradise begins in hell.
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A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
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The only difference between paradise and hell is the preference of the self-deciever
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The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.
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God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
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Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
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A good marriage can usher you into paradise, a bad one into hell
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See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more cons...
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It is better to reenter hell and become an angel, than to remain in heaven and become a demon.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
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Its ghetto paradise for some and hell on earth for others!
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Really intelligent people are clever enough to appear stupid
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
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After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
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People are intelligent; it is their ideas that are stupid.
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There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
SAID NURSI
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant.
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The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO