It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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