A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHALAn 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.
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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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