Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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