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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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 more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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

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