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.
STENDHALI do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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