If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
STENDHALNapoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
More Stendhal Quotes
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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