The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALGreat ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
STENDHALOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHALThe worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHALLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
STENDHALI am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHALLove has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHALTo find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
STENDHALWhen intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHALI do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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