Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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