It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHALAn 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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