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.
STENDHALA forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
More Stendhal Quotes
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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