The 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.
STENDHALWomen prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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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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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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