Stendhal famous quotes

04-17-2025

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
-- Stendhal

#Character #Solitude #Human Nature
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
-- Stendhal

#Love #Positive #Causes
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
-- Stendhal

#Selfishness #Desert #Fool
A good book is an event in my life.
-- Stendhal

#Book #Writing #Events
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
-- Stendhal

#Air #People #Intensity
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
-- Stendhal

#Writing #Soul #Violin
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
-- Stendhal

#Life #Yawning #Waste
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
-- Stendhal

#Atheist #Fear #Religion
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
-- Stendhal

#Events #Notion #Misfortunes
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
-- Stendhal

#Math #Hypocrisy #Vagueness
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
-- Stendhal

#Happiness #Laughter #Joy
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
-- Stendhal

#Writing #Mirrors #Novel
Our true passions are selfish.
-- Stendhal

#Selfish #Passion
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
-- Stendhal

#Promise
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.
-- Stendhal

#Gun #Politics #Impossible
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
-- Stendhal

#Firsts #Ability #Historian
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
-- Stendhal

#Love #Matter #Doe
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
-- Stendhal

#Leadership #Peace #Motivation
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
-- Stendhal

#Respect #Men #Sight
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
-- Stendhal

#Love #Age #Limits
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
-- Stendhal

#Fashion #Simple #Simplicity
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
-- Stendhal

#Pleasure #Proportion
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
-- Stendhal

#Emotion
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
-- Stendhal

#Love #Passion #Men
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
-- Stendhal

#Pleasure #Spoiled
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
-- Stendhal

#Atheist #Superstitions #Doe

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