Stendhal

"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are."

"Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert."

"To describe one's happiness is to diminish it."

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults and fewer of your virtues."

"Talent is patience."

"As soon as you think of something, you are no longer thinking of it."

"I discover that the style which seems most natural to me is that which is most honest."

"The defect of judgment is the same as the defect of sight."

"There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned."

"The true paradises are the paradises we have lost."

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

"There is no immortality but the immortality of the true judge of our time."

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones."

"Your absence has not taught me how to be alone."

"I hate all bunglars. Even the bungling of a blissful moment."

"Ambition is pitiable."

"The sight of small miseries is what amuses the millions."

"I am afraid of but one thing in life, and that is fear."

"The great remedy for love is absence and time."

"Man is too feeble to bear pure truth."

"Nothing is so absurd as to be unbelievable in Paris."

"I shall take action against my will, commands and prayers."

"To describe one's love is to diminish it."

"The privilege of absurdity."

"Energy is eternal delight."

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."

"The wise man doesn't condemn anyone."

"The cruel men believe in nothing; at least they believe in cruelty."

"Who dares say that he thoroughly understands the heart of a woman?"

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."