Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Stendahl (1783 CE-1842 CE), Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism.