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

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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself

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

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