Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. 

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. 

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. 

People happy in love have an air of intensity. 

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. 

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. 

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. 

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. 

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. 

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. 

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. 

Only great minds can afford a simple style. 

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. 

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? 

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. 

What is really beautiful must always be true. 

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. 

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. 

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. 

To describe happiness is to diminish it.