Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALPeople who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
More Stendhal Quotes
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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