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.
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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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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