Our true passions are selfish.
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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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