Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALA man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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 first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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