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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking 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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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

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