The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHALFar less envy in America than in France.
More Stendhal Quotes
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I 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.
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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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The difference breeds hatred.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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