Stendhal Quotes About Human Nature
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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