Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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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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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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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