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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
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
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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