Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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 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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