After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALAny man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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