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
ambition men years
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.
ambition power men
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 action
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
men years youth
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
leadership art men
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.
hero men france
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
men thinking ruins
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
love passion men
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
powerful grief men
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.
life men vanity
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
men imagination half
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 two devil
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
pride men birth
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
lying men mirrors
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.