Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALIt is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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