More Quotes by Stendhal
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.