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Stendhal
January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842
Nationality: French
Category: Writer
Subcategory: French Writer

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

   

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

   

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

   

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

   

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

   

Our true passions are selfish.

   

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

   

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.

   

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

   

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.

   

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.

   

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

   

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

   

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

   

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

   

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

   

What is really beautiful must always be true.

   

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.

   

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

   

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

   

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