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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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