I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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 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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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