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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Stendhal?
→ A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
→ Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
→ The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
→ Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
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Pick the quote attributed to Stendhal.
→ Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
→ The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
→ Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
→ Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Select the quotation attributed to Stendhal.
→ Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.
→ Beauty is the promise of happiness.
→ It is better to wear out than to rust out.
→ The pen is the tongue of the soul.
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One of these may be attributed to Stendhal. Which one?
→ Success don’t konsist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the seckond time.
→ Truth is most beautiful undraped.
→ One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
→ If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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Which one of these belongs to Stendhal?
→ The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
→ It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
→ Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
→ One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Stendhal?
→ Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
→ There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
→ Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
→ If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Stendhal.
→ A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
→ The happy do not believe in miracles.
→ Only great minds can afford a simple style.
→ The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Stendhal. Which one?
→ What we do not understand we do not possess.
→ We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
→ The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
→ Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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