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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War

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