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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion

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