To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. — Stendhal
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. — Stendhal
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always — Stendhal
The great majority of men, especially in france, both desire and possess a fashionable woman — Stendhal
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and — Stendhal
The french are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on earth. — Stendhal
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar — Stendhal
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror — Stendhal