The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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