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118 Powerful Stendhal Quotes to Inspire You

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31. “Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”

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Power, Happiness, Love, Ambition, Success

32. “Of all the passions, love is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”

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Love, Passion, Selflessness, Happiness, Devotion

33. “The only happiness in love is the anticipation of it.”

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Love, Anticipation, Romance, Expectation, Emotion

34. “Life itself is a kind of grindstone that is worn away by age.”

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Life, Time, Aging, Experience, Wisdom

35. “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

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Love, Devotion, Faithfulness, Commitment, Endurance

36. “Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.”

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Emotion, Women, Sensitivity, Awareness, Feelings

37. “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”

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Fame, Reputation, Gossip, Public Opinion, Controversy

38. “To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”

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Love, Attraction, First Impressions, Respect, Emotion

39. “In a word, the very quality which made Julien into a superior being was precisely that which prevented him from savoring the happiness which was placed within his grasp.”

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Ambition, Struggle, Happiness, Self-Discovery, Inner Conflict

40. “There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.”

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Nature, Beauty, Countryside, England, Scenery

41. “Misery destroys judgment.”

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Misery, Judgment, Suffering, Clarity, Decision

42. “There are no longer any real passions in the nineteenth century: that’s why one is so bored in France. People commit acts of the greatest cruelty, but without any feeling of cruelty.”

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Passion, Society, Cruelty, Emotion, Change

43. “Now civilization has banished chance, there is no more of the unexpected. If it comes up in ideas there aren’t enough epigrams to throw at it; if it comes up in action no amount of cowardice is enough to cope with our fears.”

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Civilization, Chance, Predictability, Fear, Action

44. “People happy in love have an air of intensity.”

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Love, Happiness, Passion, Connection, Intensity

45. “There’s one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.”

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Power, Authority, Control, Perception, Influence

46. “The Duchess’s voice, and its tone, were as strange as her appearance. This tone, stripped of all passion, of all human concern, of all anger, made the Count turn pale; it reminded him of the demeanour of one of his friends who, some months earlier, on the point of death, and having already received the sacraments, had asked to see him.”

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Voice, Tone, Emotion, Death, Expression

47. “Life is so short that we should not waste time on trifles.”

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Life, Time, Priorities, Meaning, Focus

48. “The first instrument of a people’s genius is its language.”

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Language, Genius, Culture, Expression, Communication

49. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

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Planning, Action, Decision, Time, Success

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

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Culture, Imitation, Society, Change, Influence

51. “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.”

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Suffering, Memory, Trauma, Emotion, Literature

52. “An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.”

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Trust, Caution, Danger, Power, Instinct