The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing? — Stendhal Copy Share Image
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The suspicion that a rival is loved is painful enough already, but to have the love that he inspires in her confessed… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
