Stendhal Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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  Character, Community, Solitude

  "De l'Amour" fragment 1 (1822)

• To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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

• Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

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  Spy, Language, Human Nature

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.204, World Classic

• Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

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  Women, Average, Society

• People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

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  Family, Heart, Self

  Stendhal (1986). “Armance”, Dufour Editions

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