Stendhal

"Boredom is a symptom that you are not living purposefully."

"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea, tossed about by uncontrollable forces."

"Money is the sinews of action, but passion is the blood of life."

"A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure and a public nuisance."

"If you cannot produce and maintain the conviction in your reader that the things you're writing about matter, then none of the rest of it matters."

"In matters of taste, there is no disputing, but in matters of beauty there is endless debate."

"The presence of a policeman or a priest puts even the guiltless in fear."

"I simply love the world because it is so beautiful, even in its ugliness."

"The great advantage of telling the truth is that one does not have to remember anything."

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love."

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."

"The prospect of a long journey through a new country fills a man with wonder and delight."

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we know what we are looking at."

"I defy you to produce any evidence that this life is serious."

"The height of wisdom is to take things as they come with good humor."

"A novel is a secret history of the author's own heart laid bare."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"That which guards the heart is the greatest power of all."

"The minute we cease to believe in the infinite, we lose all capacity to create."

"To be acquainted with oneself is at least to avoid the ridiculous extremes of pride."

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."

"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."

"I have never suffered unhappiness through lack of money, but I have suffered it through lack of nerve."

"The state of grace we enjoy in love is the rarest thing on earth."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."

"Nothing is so admirable as the promptitude with which modern young people go to bed."

"The great minds are those that create systems; the petty minds are those that judge them."

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."

"Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all."