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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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