A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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