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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics

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