Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
STENDHALThe Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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