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Famous Stendhal Quotes
“If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.”
Source: The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”
Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics
Source: To the happy few: selected letters of Stendhal [pseud.]
“The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world”
Source: Memoirs of an egotist
Source: The Red and the Black