Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
STENDHALLove has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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