Stendhal

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price…

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. Stendhal

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it. Stendhal

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what…

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

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Stendhal

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

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

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work…