The difference breeds hatred.
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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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