Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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