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

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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
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself

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