The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
STENDHALThe only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
STENDHALA forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
STENDHALTo 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.
STENDHALThe idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHALIf you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHALTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
STENDHALIf you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHALLove 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.
STENDHALTrue 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.
STENDHALThis is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHALLove is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
STENDHALIt is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
STENDHALIn our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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