I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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