There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions 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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Power, after love, is the first source of 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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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