Spring appears and we are once more children.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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