The 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.
STENDHALLove is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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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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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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