A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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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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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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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