Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

- Stendhal

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

- Stendhal

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

- Stendhal

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

- Stendhal

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

- Stendhal

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

- Stendhal

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

- Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

- Stendhal

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

- Stendhal