Stendhal
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noirand La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 January 1783
CountryFrance
imitate marvelous
She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
cure curse strangest
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
character community solitude
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
atheist superstitions doe
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
atheist fear religion
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
doors able prison-life
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
music sweet thinking
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
math hypocrisy vagueness
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
leadership peace motivation
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
spoiled pleasure describing
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
promise
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
firsts ability historian
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
mind ruts genius
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.