A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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