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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality

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