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At La Scala it is customary to take no more than twenty minutes for those little visits one pays to boxes. (Stendhal)
The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority that the nineteenth century is infatuated with, was only a heresy in his eyes that would pass like others. View quote
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. View quote
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. View quote
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. View quote
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. View quote
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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. View quote
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love. View quote
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. View quote
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To describe happiness is to diminish it. View quote
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. (Stendhal)
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. View quote
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. View quote
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. View quote
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. View quote
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. View quote
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. View quote
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. View quote
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? View quote
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion. View quote
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. (Stendhal)
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. View quote
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Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world - a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society. View quote
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This mania of the mothers of the period, to be constantly in pursuit of a son-in-law. View quote
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Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief. View quote
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