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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
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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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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

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