Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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