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What is really beautiful must always be true.

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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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

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