Stendhal Quotes

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal

Character, Everything, Solitude

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Love, Hope, Small

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love, Matter, Both

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Work, Art, Alone

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Love, Death, True

People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Love, Happy, Air

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life, Time, Short

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Same, Sheep, Interests

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Fear, Few, Religions

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Power, Love, Happiness

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Men, Woman, Her

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Great, Simple, Minds

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age, Boredom, Curse

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Time, Respect, Same

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art, Science, Nor

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Road, Mirror, Along

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Love, Friendship, Less

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Men, Power, Eternal

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Love, Hope, Future

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Life, Love, Business

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Often, Pleasure, Spoiled

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Less, Everybody, Pleases

What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful, True

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Women, Emotion, Eagerly

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Happiness, Wise, Woman

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: January 23, 1783

Died: March 23, 1842

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