To describe happiness is to diminish it.
STENDHALOne of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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