Quotes from Stendhal

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

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.

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

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

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

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears