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Stendhal Quotes

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal

Biography

Author Profession: Writer
Nationality: French
Born: January 23, 1783
Died: March 23, 1842

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Select Stendhal Quotations

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Acquired, Argument, Cautious, Governed, Habit, Intense, Less, Love, More, Music, Race, Reasoned, Will