Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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The difference breeds hatred.
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