It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
STENDHALEvery true passion thinks only of itself.
More Stendhal Quotes
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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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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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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