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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

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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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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