223 Quotes by Stendhal

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

یکی از ویژگی های نبوغ این است که فکرش را به کوبیده راه هایی که ابتذال ترسیم کرده نیندازد.(ص 428 نشر چشمه)

Un des caractères du génie est de ne pas traîner sa pensée dans l'ornière tracée par le vulgaire.

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

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.

Αλίμονο σ' όποιον πρωτοτυπεί μιλώντας.

L'inconvénient du règne de l'opinion, qui d'ailleurs procure la liberté, c'est qu'elle se mêle de ce dont elle n'a que faire ; par exemple : la vie privée.(Fin : note de bas de page)

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.