A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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More Stendhal Quotes
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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