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.
STENDHALThe ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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 an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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