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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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
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
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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