Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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