Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALA very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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