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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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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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar

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