Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
STENDHALThe boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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