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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
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
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
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
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young

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