Stendhal Quotes

France, Writer
January 23, 1783 – March, 23, 1842.

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 (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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- Happiness
- Promise
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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- Dream
- Looking
- Shining
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

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Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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- Simple
- Style
- Minds