Stendhal Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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  Fashion, Simple, Simplicity

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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

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  Atheist, Doe, Superstitions

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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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• There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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  Style, Vision

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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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• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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  Love, Positive, Valentines Day

  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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• The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

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  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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• In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

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  Success, Calling, World

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.51, World Classic

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

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  Mind, Her Beauty

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• What is really beautiful must always be true.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Being True

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.51, Booklassic

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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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  Men, Imagination, Half

  Stendhal (2015). “The Charterhouse of Parma”, p.190, Booklassic

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• If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

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  God, Christian, Believe

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.528, World Classic

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• An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

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  Play, Tables, Pistols

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.440, Tyché

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• I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

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  Wisdom, Ugly, Enough

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