This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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