Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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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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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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