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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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

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