Quotes By Stendhal
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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