People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
STENDHALThe idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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