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

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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange

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