Stendhal

"Naivete is not a virtue, but neither is it a vice."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"In drawing, there is a point beyond which one cannot go and remain an artist."

"A bold despair threw him into the most reckless gaiety."

"Nothing is so dangerous as a logical process in the hands of an illogical animal."

"War is the science of destroying men and materials."

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful."

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."

"One cannot always act morally."

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectually by the distraction of useful problems."

"I have but one passion, the love of the beautiful."

"To love is to have the constant wish to give happiness."

"Every great action is extreme."

"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."

"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."

"The man who has the courage to laugh is the master of the world."

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates."

"Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth."

"A character is formed by struggle."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"A moment of glory, a lifetime of boredom."

"I live in my dreams more than I do in the real world."

"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a man is to a woman."

"Prudery is the gate-keeper of hypocrisy."

"Leave all that is wretched behind, and advance towards beauty."

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

"A great reader selects his authors as carefully as a king selects his ministers."

"Truth is like surgery, it may hurt, but it cures."

"The only thing that can console us for being unhappy is to fancy ourselves unhappy for noble reasons."

"Boredom is a disease of wisdom."