Far less envy in America than in France.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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