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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing

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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