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Stendhal: 'If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.'

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Stendhal: 'Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.'

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Stendhal: 'Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.'

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Stendhal: 'Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.'

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Stendhal: '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.'

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Stendhal: 'To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.'

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Stendhal: 'Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.'

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Stendhal: 'She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?'

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Stendhal: '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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Stendhal: 'The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.'

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Stendhal: 'It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.'

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Stendhal: 'Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.'

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Stendhal: '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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Stendhal: 'A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.'

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Stendhal: 'This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.'

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Denis Diderot: 'People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.'

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Denis Diderot: 'The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.'

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Denis Diderot: 'Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.'

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