The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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