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.
STENDHALIn love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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