A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHALTo 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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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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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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