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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
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
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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

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