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.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source 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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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