Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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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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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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