I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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The difference breeds hatred.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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