But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
STENDHALI used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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