I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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