Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALYour career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHALWomen prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHALAll religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHALPolitics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
STENDHALIn our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
STENDHALWhy 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.
STENDHALLife is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
STENDHALShe had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHALOne of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
STENDHALOur true passions are selfish.
STENDHALThe boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
STENDHALNow that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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