Every true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHALWounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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 man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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