Stendhal

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

"For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?"

"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."