Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
More Stendhal Quotes
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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