The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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