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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True

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