The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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 very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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