Stendhal Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

  Stendhal (2015). “Amarance”, p.44, Stendhal

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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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• One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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  Love, Passion, Men

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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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• ...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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  Mind, Genius, Ruts

  Stendhal (1969). “Red and black: a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism”

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• Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

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  Emotion, Reasoning

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

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  Want, Firsts, Court

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• Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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  Avarice Greed, Morality, Kind

  Stendhal (1950*). “Stendhal 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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• 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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• Spring appears and we are once more children.

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  Children, Spring

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• Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

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  Beauty, Men, Passionate Love

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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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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• The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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  Doors, Prison Life, Able

  1830 Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.44.

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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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• 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 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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