The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
STENDHALThe boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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