I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
StendhalTags: corruption condemnation honors death-penalty distinction 1830
Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.
StendhalTags: egoism 1830 julien-sorel
It should be explained that the cure of Verrieres, an old man of eighty, but blessed by the keen air of his mountains with an iron character and strength, had the right to visit at any hour of the day the prison, the hospital, and even the poorhouse. It was at six o'clock in the morning precisely that M. Appert, who was armed with an introduction to the cure from Paris, had had the good sense to arrive in an inquisitive little town. He had gone at once to the presbytery.
StendhalCould anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?
StendhalTags: mediocrity 1830
Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur."
("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.")
[Journal entry, 10 December 1801]
Tags: happiness reality self-perception self-knowledge unhappiness reality-check
Here are my politics: I love music and painting; a good book is an event for me; I’m going on forty-four. How much time do I have left? Fifteen, twenty, thirty years at most? Very well! I maintain that in thirty years ministers will be a bit shrewder, but just about as honest as they are today.
StendhalTags: politics
Certaines choses que Napoléon dit des femmes, plusieurs discussiions sur le mérite des romans à la mode sous son règne lui donnèrent alors, pour la première fois, quelques idées que tout autre jeune home de son age aurait eues depuis longtemps.
StendhalTags: passion men sex french ideas romanticism
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
StendhalTo write a book is to risk being shot at in public.
StendhalTags: writing writing-life marie-henri-beyle stendahl
E' strano, il verbo "ghigliottinare" non si può coniugarlo in tutti i tempi; si può dire "io sarò ghigliottinato, tu sarai ghigliottinato", ma non si dice "io sono stato ghigliottinato". E perché no? — continuò Giuliano, — se c'è un'altra vita? ... In fede mia, se trovo il Dio dei cristiani sono perduto: è un despota, e, come tale, vendicativo; la sua Bibbia non parla che di punizioni atroci. Non l'ho mai amato, non ho nemmeno mai potuto credere che qualcuno lo ami sinceramente. E' senza pietà, — (e gli vennero in mente parecchi passi della Bibbia). — Mi punirà in un modo tremendo...
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