It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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