Spring appears and we are once more children.
STENDHALSpring appears and we are once more children.
STENDHALPleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALAfter moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHALI do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
STENDHALPolitics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
STENDHALThe only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
STENDHALNothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHALEvery true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHALThe idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
STENDHALI think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
STENDHALIt is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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