A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
STENDHALThere is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHALWhen you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALWhen a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
STENDHALAny man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
STENDHALA 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.
STENDHALIn love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
STENDHALLove 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.
STENDHALWounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
STENDHALThe 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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