Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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The difference breeds hatred.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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