Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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.
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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 better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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