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More Quotes by Stendhal
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
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.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
