One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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