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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

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