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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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 woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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