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.
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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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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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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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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