Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Quote by Stendhal

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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...

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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

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

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

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.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Beauty is the promise of happiness

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...

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

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

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

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 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,...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

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...

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it...

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it...