If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
STENDHALThe sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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