Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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