The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHALThe boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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