Stendhal Quotes

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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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  Feet, Miserable, Life Is

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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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  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

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• Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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  Promise

  "De L'Amour" (On Love) by Stendhal, (Ch. 17, footnote), 1822.

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• One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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  Character, Community, Solitude

  "De l'Amour" fragment 1 (1822)

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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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  Fashion, Simple, Simplicity

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

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  Thinking, People, Insulting

  Stendhal (1975). “Memoirs of an egotist”, Chatto & Windus

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• All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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  Atheist, Fear, Religion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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  Love, Dream, Stars

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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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  Events, Notion, Happens

  Stendhal's journal entry, December 10, 1801.

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• The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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  Boredom, Unhappiness

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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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  Character, Pride, Sacrifice

  Stendhal (1916). “On Love”

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• The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

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  Tyrants, Ideas

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.277, Xist Publishing

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• To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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  Math, Hypocrisy, Vagueness

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• A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

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  Writing, Soul, Sound

  Stendhal (2003). “The Red and the Black”, p.11, Modern Library

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• If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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  Men, Thinking, Ruins

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.50, World Classic

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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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  Love, Fever, Process

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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  Mind, Her Beauty

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• Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

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  Emotion, Reasoning

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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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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  Love, Heart, Doe

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• When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

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  Want, Firsts, Court

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• A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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  Happiness, Wise, Yield

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 60), 1822.

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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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  America, United States, Public Opinion

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

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  Atheist, Doe, Superstitions

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• I see but one rule: to be clear.

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  Writing, Clear

  Stendhal (1925). “The Charterhouse of Parma”

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