The difference breeds hatred.
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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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 do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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