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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love

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