In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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