Stendhal

"The secret of being well is to never be too ambitious."

"A man's worth is measured by the questions he asks."

"The greatest fear is the fear of being ourselves."

"In every human heart, there is a spark of divine fire."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"The human heart, that strange instrument, is perhaps the greatest mystery of nature."

"To describe happiness is to diminish it."

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"I am too intelligent to be unhappy."

"Beauty is nothing other than the beginning of terror."

"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."

"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."

"Pleasure is the only thing worth living for; all virtues are merely means to that end."

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth and lose a friend than to lie and keep one."

"The sublime is produced by the effort we make to imagine the infinite."

"True love is like a ghost; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

"I love humanity but I hate humans."

"The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action."

"Art requires either complete nakedness or complete convention."

"Beware of thoughts that come in the night."

"A man's as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks."

"I have always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

"The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts while stupid people are full of confidence."

"One needs to be slightly underemployed if one is to do something significant."

"All religions begin in a cave and end in a cathedral."

"The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love."