Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALThis is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
More Stendhal Quotes
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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