The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALPeople are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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