Stendhal Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Stendhal Quotes and Sayings
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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 great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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