The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
STENDHALShe had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
More Stendhal Quotes
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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