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.
STENDHALWhen intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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