Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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.
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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 novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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