Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
STENDHALIt is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Our true passions are selfish.
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