Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHALThe only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
More Stendhal Quotes
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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