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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

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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
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
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

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