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
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. – Stendhal
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. – Stendhal
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. – Stendhal
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. – Stendhal
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. – Stendhal
