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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
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
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife

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