I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
STENDHALGreat 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for 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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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