After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALThe first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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