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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
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
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

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