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

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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking

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

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