Marie Henri Beyle (used pseudonym de Stendhal) Quotes
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
The solitary ego that revolves around itself and feeds upon itself, ends up strangled by a great cry or a great laugh.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in women, by the heart.
Man in not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable actions.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....
Only great minds can afford a simple style