Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
STENDHALThere is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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