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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom

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