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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking

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