Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALThis is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHALLove is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALIf you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
STENDHALWomen prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHALI think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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.
STENDHALFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
STENDHALAt a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
STENDHALThe French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
STENDHALThe boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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