A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHALTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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