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

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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself

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