Stendhal Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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  Pleasure, Proportion

  Stendhal (1915). “On Love”

• Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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  Pleasure, Spoiled, Describing

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

• But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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  Pleasure, Sample, Ifs

• For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

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  Character, Men, Tears

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.50, Tyché

• Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

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  Men, Giving, Action

  Stendhal, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1927). “On Love”

• The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

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  Ambition, Power, Men

• I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

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  Clever, People, Energy

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.72, Booklassic

• People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

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  Reading, People, Suffering

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.192, Tyché

• 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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