Stendhal

Stendhal

"If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion."
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"If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion."
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"One can acquire everything in solitude but character."
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"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
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"Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion."
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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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"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
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"The only unhappiness is a life of boredom."
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"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
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"Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician."
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"To write a book is to risk being shot at in public."
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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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"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."
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"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love"
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"God's only excuse is that he does not exist"
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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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