The difference breeds hatred.
STENDHALOne-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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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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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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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