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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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
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
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

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