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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
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
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 man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

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