Author: Stendhal

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

- Stendhal

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

- 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.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

- Stendhal

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.

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.

- Stendhal

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

- Stendhal

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

- Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

- Stendhal

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

- Stendhal

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

- Stendhal

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