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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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