Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
STENDHALThe more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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