Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
STENDHALThe Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
More Stendhal Quotes
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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