Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHALOne can acquire everything in solitude except character.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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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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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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