Stendhal Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

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

  Stendhal

  Power, Love Is, Firsts

  Stendhal (1916). “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

• At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

  Stendhal

  Distance, Power, Government

  "La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 16), 1839.

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