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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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
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
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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
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

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