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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love

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