A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHALAn 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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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