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.

Quote by Stendhal

Topics: Passion Quotes

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

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

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.