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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

~Stendhal

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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: January 23rd, 1783

Died: March 23rd, 1842

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