Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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