- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
- Melancholy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
- Exaggerate
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- Nov 07, 2020
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
- Conviction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
- Rose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020