Stendhal: A good book is an event in my life.

A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal

A good book is an event in my life.
Dans notre état, il faut opter; il s'agit de faire fortune dans ce monde ou dans — Stendhal
Je devins gai ou plutôt j'acquis l'art de le paraître. — Stendhal
Une femme de quarante ans n'est plus quelque chose que pour les hommes qui l'ont — Stendhal
Les vraies passions sont égoïstes. — Stendhal
Henry IV, Part 1 — William Shakespeare
A house without books is like a room without windows. — Horace Mann
A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity. — Napoleon
Aristotle...is the first man , so far as I know, to have collected books. — Aristotle
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may — Napoleon
The old Quaker was right: "I expect to pass through life but once. If there is a — W. C. Gannett
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, calle — Aulus Gellius
Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the c — Marcus Aurelius