Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
More Stendhal Quotes
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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 difference breeds hatred.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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