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

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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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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