An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
STENDHALTrue love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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