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Quotes by Stendhal
Quotes by Stendhal
“Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”
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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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“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
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“Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.”
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“The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.”
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“The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.”
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“It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.”
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“A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.”
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“Our true passions are selfish.”
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“Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.”
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“The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”
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“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.”
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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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