Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
STENDHALWhen you want to court a woman, court her sister first
More Stendhal Quotes
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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