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Our true passions are selfish.

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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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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