The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
STENDHALIn our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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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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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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