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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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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young

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