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.
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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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