Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
STENDHALThe English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
More Stendhal Quotes
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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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 first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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