Stendhal Quotes

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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…
• The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
• Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
• To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
• Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
• Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
• 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…
• Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
• Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
• The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
• To describe happiness is to diminish it.
• A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
• If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
• Our true passions are selfish.
• The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
• What is really beautiful must always be true.
• Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
• God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
• I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe…
• It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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