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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp

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