After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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More Stendhal Quotes
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen 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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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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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