Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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