“In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.”

—  Stendhal, book The Red and the Black

Dans notre état, il faut opter; il s'agit de faire fortune dans ce monde ou dans l'autre, il n'y a pas de milieu.
Vol. I, ch. VIII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

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