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Spring appears and we are once more children.

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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
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman

Spring appears and we are once more children.

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