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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

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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 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
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

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