What did Stendhal mean by: The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. - Stendhal Writer · France Copy
+ I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Bottles, Champagne, Moral, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Age, Blessing, Boredom, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Waste, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Distance, Government, Power, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Advice, Mad, Pay, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Leadership, Motivation, Peace, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
+ It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stendhal, Husband, Lovers, Romantic Love, 0 - Stendhal Writer · France
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
