On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
STENDHALThe idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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