What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALIf you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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