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Stendhal [1783-1842] French

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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism.

Happiness, Love, Fear, Hope, Death, Friendship, Future, God, Politics, Power, Respect, Romantic, Science, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.	Fear, Love	101
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.	Hope, Love	102
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.	Wisdom	103
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.	God	104
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.		105
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.		106
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.		107
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.	Respect	108
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.	Death	109
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.	Fear	110
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.	Romantic	111
People happy in love have an air of intensity.	Love	112
Only great minds can afford a simple style.		113
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.		114
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.		115
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.	Politics	116
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.	Future, Hope	117
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.	Science	118
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?		119
What is really beautiful must always be true.		120
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.		121
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.		122
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.	Friendship	123
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.		124
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.	Happiness, Power	125
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.		126
Our true passions are selfish.		201
To describe happiness is to diminish it.	Happiness	202
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.		203
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.		204
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.	Happiness	205
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.		206
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.		207
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.		208
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.		209
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.		210
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.		211
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.		212
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.		213
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.		214
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.		215
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.		216
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.		217
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.		218

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