A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHALAll religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
More Stendhal Quotes
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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