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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

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