Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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