Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHALSigns cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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