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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water

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