One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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