Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALA very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The 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.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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