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More Quotes by Stendhal
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.
