The difference breeds hatred.
STENDHALThe ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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