One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
STENDHALTo 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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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