The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
STENDHALIn 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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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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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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