Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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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