French - Writer | January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
GreatStyleSimpleMindsGreat Minds
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
LoveRomanticMeLove MeYouI Can
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
LoveHopeSmallBirthDegreeCause
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
SheepSameAlwaysShepherdOwnHis
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.
LoveTrue LoveDeathThoughtEasy
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
CharacterSolitudeEverythingExcept
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
LoveHappinessPowerLove IsFirst
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
HappinessDescribeDiminish
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
LoveHappyPeopleAirIntensity
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
RespectTimeManFaceLovedSight
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
WisdomMoreEverybodyLessPleases
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.
PeopleReadingStoryHorrorWithout
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