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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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 do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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