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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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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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon

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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