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.
STENDHALIt is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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