In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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The 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.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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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 boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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