Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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 very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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