I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
STENDHALThe idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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The difference breeds hatred.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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