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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman

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