Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
STENDHALThe boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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