Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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