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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

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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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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