When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
STENDHALIt is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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