A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
STENDHALThis religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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