Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALThe Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
More Stendhal Quotes
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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 describe happiness is to diminish it.
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To 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.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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 sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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