A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALThe 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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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