When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHALWhen a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
More Stendhal Quotes
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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