When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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To describe happiness is to diminish 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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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