Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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