People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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