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Stendhal, born Marie-Henri Beyle, was a prominent 19th-century French novelist and literary critic. Known for his profound psychological portrayals and unique narrative style, his works include masterpieces such as 'The Red and the Black' and 'The Charterhouse of Parma'. Stendhal was born on January 23, 1783, and died on March 23, 1842.

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“Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.”

Men Giving Action Pleasure Refuse

Book:On Love

Source: On Love

“When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.”

Men Two Running Three Women Risk Betrayed Three Times Mistress Adultery Being Betrayed

Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.”

Men Giving Care Next Pleasure Power Ambition Men And Women And Love Fortune Intimate Addresses Tenderness Mistress Limitless Good Fortune

Author:Stendhal

“Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?”

Men Helping Youth He Man Hero France Heroines

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.”

Men Young Rich Pride Birth Young Man Wounded Flattery Flatterer Wounded Pride

Author:Stendhal

“One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.”

Men Love Doe Life Is Passion Half He Man Finest One Half

Author: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.”

Men Should Firsts Faces Respect Should Have Sight Pity

Book:On Love

Source: On Love

“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”

Ifs Thinking Men Eternal Court Ruins Assured

Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”

Men Way Might Young Desire Fashion Fine Horse Majority Luxury France Young Man Fashionable

Book:Love

Source: Love

“For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?”

Men Should Said Character Pleasure Tears Fool Prove Elements Rely Tested Prove To Me Shedding Tears

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“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.”

Men Feelings Dies Powerful Grief Century Fool Ordinary Noble Encounters Exile Procedures Nineteenth Century Humiliate Genuineness

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.”

Men Stills Moments Form Lying Water Vision Novel Feet Sky Mirrors Blame Carrie Packs Immoral Accused Puddles Inspectors High Road Azure

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?”

Men Two Different Devil Malicious

Book:The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition

Source: The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition

“Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.”

Men Life Prove Moved Affair Ignorant Vanity His Love Love Affair

Book:The Pink & The Green: Followed by Mina De Vanghel

Source: The Pink & The Green: Followed by Mina De Vanghel

“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.”

Men Feels Beauty Effects Rate Impression Strongest Passionate Love

Book:Love

Source: Love

“A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he”

Men Enjoy Imagination Ability Pleasure Half Idiot

Book:The Charterhouse of Parma

Source: The Charterhouse of Parma

“The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.”

Men Way Years Firsts Long Today Young Next Brain Virtue Ambition Enthusiasm Young Man Fifty Incapable

Book:The Charterhouse of Parma

Source: The Charterhouse of Parma

“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.”

Men Art Joy Water Leadership Hell He Man Genius Sports Psychology

Author:Stendhal

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

Men Years Youth Forty Old Woman Forty Years Old

Author:Stendhal

About the Author

Born: January 23, 1783
Died: March 23, 1842
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 165

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