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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
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 can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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 very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification

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