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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

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