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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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