The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
StendhalStichwörter: history
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?
StendhalStichwörter: wisdom personal-growth personality
Но изключителната личност се отличава с това,че мисълта й не следва пътя,утъпкан от посредствеността.
StendhalThe tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
StendhalStichwörter: humor peer-pressure herd-behavior mob-mentality
In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the child of the novels. The young tutor and his timid mistress would have found in three or four novels, and even in the lyrics of the Gymnase, a clear statement of their situation. The novels would have outlined for them the part to be played, shown them the model to copy; and this model, sooner or later, albeit without the slightest pleasure, and perhaps with reluctance, vanity would have compelled Julien to follow.
In a small town of the Aveyron or the Pyrenees, the slightest incident would have been made decisive by the ardour of the climate. Beneath our more sombre skies, a penniless young man, who is ambitious only because the refinement of his nature puts him in need of some of those pleasures which money provides, is in daily contact with a woman of thirty who is sincerely virtuous, occupied with her children, and never looks to novels for examples of conduct. Everything goes slowly, everything happens by degrees in the provinces: life is more natural.
Stichwörter: life innocence love imitation naturalness
Le mauvais goût mène au crime.
StendhalHas he written to you?'
'He writes frequently.'
'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.
Stichwörter: humor control foolishness pride
The 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.
StendhalStichwörter: life living emotion peer-pressure genuineness
These gentlemen, although of the highest nobility,' thought Julien, 'are not in the least boring like the people who come to dine with M. de La Mole; and I can see why,' he added a moment later,'they are not ashamed to be indecent.
StendhalFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
StendhalStichwörter: life philosophy-religion
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