Far less envy in America than in France.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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