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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

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