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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter

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