It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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