Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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