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

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.

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...

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

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...

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...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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

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...

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish 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 great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

My advice to young film-makers is this: Don't follow trends, Start them!

My advice to young film-makers is this: Don't follow trends, Start them!

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer...

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer...