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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time

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

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