Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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