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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure 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
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
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
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
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time

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

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