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.
STENDHALThe great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
More Stendhal Quotes
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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In 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.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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