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Best Quotes by Stendhal (Top 10)
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A good book is an event in my life.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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.
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
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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.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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