It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
STENDHALAn 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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