black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Stendhal

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
STENDHAL

Crumble Myself Rule See World
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
STENDHAL

Boredom Happiness Life
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
STENDHAL

Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHAL

Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHAL

Description Happiness Spoil
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
STENDHAL

Myself Nature People Thinking World
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
STENDHAL

Description Diminish Happiness
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHAL

Ability History Invention Qualification
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
STENDHAL

Beautiful Happiness Promise
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
STENDHAL

Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHAL

Book Goodness Life
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.
STENDHAL

Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHAL

Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
STENDHAL

Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
STENDHAL

Different Known Mindset True
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHAL

Born Degree Hope Love Small

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stendhal Quotes