Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHALIt 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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