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Category: Stendhal

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

Religions, Many, Few

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Love, Always, Pleasures

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Love, Happiness, Love Is

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Describe, Diminish

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Love, Argument, Race

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Love, True Love, Easy

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Art, Logic, Dodge

If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Romantic, Me, You

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Happy, People, Air

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Time, Man, Loved

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.

Love, Future, Lost

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Love, Small, Birth