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

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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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
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
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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

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