Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
STENDHALI love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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 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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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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