Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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