What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALThe ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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