The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALIn love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
More Stendhal Quotes
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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