“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
-- Stendhal
#Character #Solitude #Human Nature
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
-- Stendhal
#Love #Positive #Causes
“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
-- Stendhal
#Selfishness #Desert #Fool
“A good book is an event in my life.”
-- Stendhal
#Book #Writing #Events
“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”
-- Stendhal
#Air #People #Intensity
“A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.”
-- Stendhal
#Writing #Soul #Violin
“Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.”
-- Stendhal
#Life #Yawning #Waste
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
-- Stendhal
#Atheist #Fear #Religion
“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.”
-- Stendhal
#Events #Notion #Misfortunes
“Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”
-- Stendhal
#Math #Hypocrisy #Vagueness
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
-- Stendhal
#Happiness #Laughter #Joy
“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”
-- Stendhal
#Writing #Mirrors #Novel
“Our true passions are selfish.”
-- Stendhal
#Selfish #Passion
“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”
-- Stendhal
#Promise
“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.”
-- Stendhal
#Gun #Politics #Impossible
“The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.”
-- Stendhal
#Firsts #Ability #Historian
“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”
-- Stendhal
#Love #Matter #Doe
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
-- Stendhal
#Leadership #Peace #Motivation
“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”
-- Stendhal
#Respect #Men #Sight
“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.”
-- Stendhal
#Love #Age #Limits
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
-- Stendhal
#Fashion #Simple #Simplicity
“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
-- Stendhal
#Pleasure #Proportion
“Women prefer emotions to reasoning.”
-- Stendhal
#Emotion
“One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.”
-- Stendhal
#Love #Passion #Men
“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
-- Stendhal
#Pleasure #Spoiled
“God's only excuse is that he does not exist.”
-- Stendhal