If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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The difference breeds hatred.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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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