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

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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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics

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

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