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118 Powerful Stendhal Quotes to Inspire You

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91. “This man, whom great monarchies would have envied the prince of Parma, was known to have only one passion: of holding intimate conversations with great personages and currying favour by his buffoonery.”

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Power, Influence, Society, Flattery, Ambition

92. “Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”

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Friendship, Love, Illusion, Emotion, Relationships

93. “Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”

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Logic, Science, Art, Perception, Philosophy

94. “I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.”

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Reality, Perception, Truth, Illusion, Storytelling

95. “What is this self, this I that I am? I know not. One fine day, I awoke to find myself upon this earth; I discovered my fate to be forever linked with a certain body, character, estate. Am I to spend all my days, then, ineffectually seeking to alter that which cannot be altered, and so, meanwhile, forget to live? Rather do I propose to accept myself as I am, humbly submitting to my own defects.”

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Self, Identity, Acceptance, Life, Fate

96. “The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”

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Power, Oppression, Emotion, Society, Injustice

97. “A good book is an event in my life.”

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Books, Literature, Knowledge, Passion, Life

98. “Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.”

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Religion, Faith, Illusion, Disappointment, Society

99. “Politeness is nothing other than the art of showing a stranger that one is pleased to see him.”

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Politeness, Etiquette, Society, Courtesy, Manners

100. “It seemed to Julian that there was far too much hair in his wig.”

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Humor, Fashion, Perception, Vanity, Style

101. “Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”

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Prudery, Avarice, Morality, Society, Restraint

102. “I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.”

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Love, Beauty, Intelligence, Fear, Relationships

103. “The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.”

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Marriage, Love, Boredom, Relationships, Change

104. “One should always consider the consequences of one's actions before one acts.”

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Wisdom, Consequences, Caution, Decision, Responsibility

105. “Courage was the fundamental quality in her character. Nothing was capable of giving her any excitement and of curing her of an ever-present tendency to boredom, but the idea that she was playing heads or tails with her whole existence.”

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Courage, Risk, Boredom, Life, Adventure

106. “Only great minds can afford a simple style.”

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Genius, Simplicity, Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity

107. “God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.”

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Religion, Belief, Philosophy, Atheism, Existence

108. “After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.”

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Morality, Recovery, Indulgence, Escape, Pleasure

109. “A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”

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Hope, Love, Faith, Optimism, Life

110. “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.”

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Politics, Literature, Art, Disruption, Society

111. “Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.”

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Love, Courage, Beauty, Risk, Passion

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

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Love, Youth, Aging, Beauty, Relationships

113. “Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.”

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Fashion, Change, Society, Time, Trends

114. “If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”

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Love, Devotion, Strength, Heartbreak, Passion

115. “It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming.”

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Destiny, Dreams, Fate, Life, Hope

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

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Deception, Power, Leadership, Manipulation, Control

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

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Wisdom, Love, Happiness, Surprise, Relationships

118. “Ever since Napoleon’s fall, provincial manners rigidly suppress anything that smacked of gallantry. People are afraid of being dismissed from office.”

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Gallantry, Manners, Fear, Politics, Society

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