Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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