Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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 forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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