Virtue, that means increasing happiness; vice increases unhappiness. All the rest is only hypocrisy or bourgeois asininity.
La vertu, c'est augmenter le bonheur; le vice augmente le malheur. Tout le reste n'est qu'hypocrisie ou ânerie bourgeoise.
- Stendhal, Correspondence. To M. di Fiore, at Paris, Civita-Vecchia, the 1st nov. 1834
Matilde Dembowski, who Stendhal loved as much as happiness.
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