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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

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