The difference breeds hatred. Stendhal More Quotes by Stendhal More Quotes From Stendhal If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. Stendhal ruins men thinking I see but one rule: to be clear. Stendhal clear writing I have a bad memory for facts. Stendhal bad-memories memories facts 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. Stendhal skills soldier thinking There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. Stendhal style vision Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch? Stendhal devil men two Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness. Stendhal promise The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince. Stendhal ambition power men Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. Stendhal hideous obsolete fashion I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing. Stendhal clear ifs world Spring appears and we are once more children. Stendhal spring children Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive. Stendhal logical-reasoning offensive pieces War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations. Stendhal soul war people An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table. Stendhal pistols tables play After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne. Stendhal champagne moral bottles Now 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. Stendhal equality crush support It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face. Stendhal husband revenge blow Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words. Stendhal spy human-nature language If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner. Stendhal christian god believe This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. Stendhal boredom blessing age
