Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Quote by Stendhal

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

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

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something...

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something...

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

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

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Beauty is the promise of happiness

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...

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

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

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

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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.