black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

Stendhal

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.
STENDHAL

Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHAL

Ability History Invention Qualification
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHAL

Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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.
STENDHAL

Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
STENDHAL

Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
STENDHAL

Excuse Existence God Himself
What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHAL

Beautiful True
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
STENDHAL

Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
STENDHAL

Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHAL

Description Happiness Spoil
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.
STENDHAL

Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
STENDHAL

Kind Vice Worst
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
STENDHAL

Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
STENDHAL

Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Stendhal Quotes