When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
StendhalNapoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
StendhalThe pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
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