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.
STENDHALA man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
More Stendhal Quotes
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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