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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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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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