Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALPeople are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Love 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.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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