Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise 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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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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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