The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise 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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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