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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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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
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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 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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
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

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