When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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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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