Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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