If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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