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.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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