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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I see but one rule: to be clear.

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  Writing, Clear

  Stendhal (1925). “The Charterhouse of Parma”

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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  Art, Science, Dodge

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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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• Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

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  Emotion, Reasoning

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

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  Atheist, Doe, Superstitions

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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 see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

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  World, Clear, Ifs

  Stendhal (1925). “The Charterhouse of Parma”

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