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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
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

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