Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
More Stendhal Quotes
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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The 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.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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