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.
STENDHALEvery true passion thinks only of itself.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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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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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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