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.
STENDHALIn love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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