The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. Stendhal More Quotes by Stendhal More Quotes From Stendhal 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 sight men The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. Stendhal proportion pleasure It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. Stendhal prevailing generations disease When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. Stendhal women running two God's only excuse is that he does not exist. Stendhal superstitions atheist doe If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. Stendhal doe heart love Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one. Stendhal important should I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered. Stendhal energy clever people Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. Stendhal notion events happens 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. Stendhal leadership men art The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. Stendhal historian ability firsts People happy in love have an air of intensity. Stendhal air heart love Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance. Stendhal ignorance book thinking Women prefer emotions to reasoning. Stendhal reasoning emotion To describe happiness is to diminish it. Stendhal laughter joy happiness Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Stendhal illusion friendship A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. Stendhal youth men years Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them. Stendhal passionate-love beauty men 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. Stendhal stars dream love Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love. Stendhal fever age love
