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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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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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

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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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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