I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
STENDHALGod’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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