Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
STENDHALA 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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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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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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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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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