God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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