Stendhal Quotes & Sayings

“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”

“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”

“Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.”

“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”

“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”

“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.”

“The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.”

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”