When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALWhen you want to court a woman, court her sister first
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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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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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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