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When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Man Love Despair Joy
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Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Desires Pain Torment Enjoyment
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.

Man Believe Power Destiny
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Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Love Poet View Silent
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Economy spoils pleasure

Economy Spoils Pleasure
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We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

Love Reason Cease Manner
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The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned

Educate Read Travel Learned
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From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Love Sad Disease Affection
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Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Love Feeling Nature Species
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The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Philosopher Person Pleasures Sorrow
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I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

Writer Women True Love
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Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

Finishing First Nothing Brag
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I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence

Learned Health Food Abstinence
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it

Man Free Believe
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Love Pleasure Immortal Fantasy
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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Man Power Nature Wise
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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury

Worship God Action Respect
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Mind Human being Examine Memory
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Friends Fortune Power Gratitude
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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Man Free Actions Passion
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Marriage is the tomb of love.

Marriage Tomb Love
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Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life

Worthy Life Subject
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When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

You Fool Blow Intelligence
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They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Youth Kind Good Smile
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I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent

Food Constitution Health Excellent
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Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess
Happy Life Treasure Possess
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If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Want People Laugh Serious
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A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

Man Love Words Fool
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The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

Forgets Forgive Heart Mind
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God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer

God Admit Possibility Suffer
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The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Rebellion City Wise Government
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Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Who Love Life Deserve
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To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Kiss Absorb Essence Person
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Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

Enjoy Present Future Laugh
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Courage Strength Self-confidence
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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

God Principle Conceive Know
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After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms

Beautiful Woman Mind Lover
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom

Hatred Time Unhappy Bosom
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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Thought Devour Fever Consumption
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Our senses are fairies who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to music, which makes the mute agitation of nature a harmony

Senses Miracle Music Nature
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They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.

Moved Watch Moments Beautiful
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But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

God Permit Love Splendor
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I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

Kissed Way Manner Guide
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Military men are the scourges of the world

Millitary Men Scourges World
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Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

Language Masked Reveal Soul
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Every authentically loved being is a kind of god

Every Loved Being God
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It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.

Difficult Learned Secret Ignorance
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Essence Life Smile Boredom
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
Artist Impose Vision Humanity
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Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Government Duty Avoid War
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