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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
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
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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 other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
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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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth

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