A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHALBut, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Our true passions are selfish.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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