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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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This 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.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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