On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
STENDHALIt is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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