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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

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