Stendhal

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

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.

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

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.

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

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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

If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.