Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
More Stendhal Quotes
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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