The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHALTo 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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