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What is really beautiful must always be true.

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself

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