Stendhal Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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  Passion, Thinking, Very True

  Le Rouge et le Noir bk. 2, ch. 1 (1830)

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• Our true passions are selfish.

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  Selfish, Passion, True Passion

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.145, 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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• 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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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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  Fashion, Simple, Simplicity

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• A good book is an event in my life.

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  Book, Writing, Events

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

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  Expression, Law, Suffering

  "Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)". Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XLIV), November 1830.

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• A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
  It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

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  Air, Hands, Want Something

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The difference breeds hatred.

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  Differences, Hatred

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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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• The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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  Please

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

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  Mind, Her Beauty

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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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  Selfishness, Desert, Fool

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.331, Tyché

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• Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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  Power, Love Is, Firsts

  Stendhal (1916). “On Love”

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• Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

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  Life, Yawning, Waste

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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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