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.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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