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

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.

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.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

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...