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Stendhal Quotes about Power

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

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

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Power, Love Is, Firsts
Stendhal (1916). “On Love”

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

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Ambition, Power, Men

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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Distance, Power, Government
"La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 16), 1839.

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