Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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