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

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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
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
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
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
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 difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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