28 quotes
French writer (1783–1842)
“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”
"There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness."
on Philosophy
"A good book is an event in my life."
on Literature
"To write a book is to risk being shot at in public."
on Writing
"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
on Character
"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
on Happiness
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love"
on Love
"The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly."
"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
on Religion
"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
on Power
"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."
"To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face."
"If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion."
on Wisdom
"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."
on History
"Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us."
on Psychology
"Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician."
on Leadership
"I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought."
on Death
"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us"
"One can acquire everything in solitude but character."
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
