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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague

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