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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
Minds differ still more than faces.
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Deep Face Mask Mind One Liner
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cause Disease Earthquake Globe Opinion Suffering
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Healing History Men Past Repeat
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Cure Mad Madness Men Thinking
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Art Humour Liberty Lying Politics
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Alone Deep One Liner Proud Rare

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