Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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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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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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