Love quotes from Stendhal

• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. 
• Friendship has its illusions no less than love. 
• If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. 
• 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 has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. 
• A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. 
• People happy in love have an air of intensity. 
• To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. 
• The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.