Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHALOn a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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