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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
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
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
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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