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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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