When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALWhen you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALIf you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHALPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALIt is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHALOne-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
STENDHALWhat is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALLove has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHALWho knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALOne of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
STENDHALAn 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.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALIt is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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