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

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering

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