When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
STENDHALThe ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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