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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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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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