The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALA very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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