WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Stendhal – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Stendhal -- On Love, Book 3 “Fragments” (1822) https://wist.info/stendhal/38255/ https://wist.info/stendhal/38255/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:05:03 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38255 One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.


Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer [pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle]
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Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer [pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle]
Letter (c. 1818)

Variants:
  • "The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his are the same."
  • "The shepherd ... can never convince his flock of sheep that his interests and theirs are identical."
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