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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please

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