Top 35 Stendhal Quotes

In this post, you will find great Stendhal Quotes. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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What is really beautiful must always be true.

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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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

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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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God‘s only excuse is that he does not exist.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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Our true passions are selfish.

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

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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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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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Top 35 Stendhal Quotes

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