There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHALPolitics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
More Stendhal Quotes
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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 do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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