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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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