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.
STENDHALNever had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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