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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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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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself

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