When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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