What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALWhat is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHALOur true passions are selfish.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHALWhy not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHALIt is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHALThe ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
STENDHALThe only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
STENDHALIn our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
STENDHALThe tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
STENDHALI call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALThe French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
STENDHALOne-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
STENDHALThe 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.
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