The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
STENDHALIt is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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