A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Quote by Stendhal

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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have...

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have...

History is a better guide than good intentions

History is a better guide than good intentions