Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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