Great Throughts Treasury

"He could no longer give a thought to anything else. His days passed like hours. At all hours of the day, when he sought to occupy his mind with some serious business, his thoughts would abandon everything, and he would come to himself a quarter of an hour later, his heart throbbing, his head confused, and dreaming of this one idea: 'Does she love me?"

"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."

"Here's the whole of my political life: love music and painting, and it is a good book for me the experience."

"How I admired in the presumption that differ from other rural boys! Well, I lived it enough to see that difference bears hatred."

"I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly."

"I don't mean to take advantage of my title of father to interfere with you, my son. You are free."

"I hate having surrendered to anyone, said Mathilde, weeping with rage against itself."

"I have lived long enough to see that difference gives rise to hatred."

"I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered. And besides, good society usurps its privileges. It had in the past the privilege of judging what was proper, but now that it supposes itself to be attacked, it condemns not what is irredeemably coarse and disagreeable, but what it thinks harmful to its interest."

"I see in you something that offends the vulgar."

"I see only last death sentence distinguishes a man thought Mathilde is the only thing that is not purchased. Ah this is a good word I just said! What a pity it did not come to me in a way honor. Mathilde had too much taste to bring into the conversation a joke made ??in advance, but she had too much vanity Aussie not be enchanted by itself."

"I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, said Mathilde. It is the only thing which cannot be bought."

"I will never demean myself to speak about my courage, said Julien, coldly, it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts."

"It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover."

"It is violent impression of ugliness on a soul destined to love the beautiful."

"It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors of all the drawing-rooms in her face."

"It shouldn?t be Explained That the cure of Verrieres, an old man of eighty, but blessed by the keen air of His character and mountains with year iron strength, had the right to visit at Any hour of the day the prison, the hospital, making and even the poorhouse. It was in the morning at six o'clock precisely M. Appert that, who was armed with introduction to the course year from Paris, had had the good sense to arrive in year inquisitive little town. he had gone at once to the presbytery."

"It's not so much being rich that makes the happiness is to become one."

"It's weird, the verb guillotine you cannot combine it at all times; you can say I will be guillotined, you will be guillotined, but you do not say I have been guillotined. And why not? - Giuliano continued, - if there is another life? ... Faith, if I find the God of the Christians are lost: it is a despot, and as such, vindictive; his Bible does not speak of that atrocious punishments. I never loved, I've never even been able to believe that someone you love him sincerely. And 'no mercy, - (and he recalled several passages from the Bible). - I will punish in a tremendous way ..."

"Jean Jacques Rousseau, he answered, is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends."

"Julien has tried not to exaggerate this singular friendship. He compared himself to a weapon trade. Every day ending up before resuming intimate tonpreque the day before, we were wondering about: Will we be friends or foes today?"

"Listen enchanted wind sighs foliage of lime and thunder rare drops that began to fall on the lower leaves."

"Lost in a dream vague and gentle, so foreign to his nature, his hand gently squeezing them because it seemed like the perfect beauty, he listened dreamily leaves rustling in the breeze rustling lime night."

"Love has doubtless head of the intelligence more than true love, but it only has moments of enthusiasm. It itself knows too well, it sits in judgement on itself incessantly; far from distracting thought, it is made ??by sheer force of thought."

"Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will"

"Love was not just admiration before beauty, but that was his pride."

"Lucien Leuwen was expelled from the Ecole Polytechnique for having gone for an untimely walk on a day when he, with his fellow students, had been ordered to keep to their quarters. It was on one of those famous days of June, 1832."

"Mathilde had wholeheartedly lack of character; this was the only blemish of the young beautiful blamed."

"My policy is art: I leave music, painting; a good book means something important to me."

"Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?"

"Nor would it be called love that feeling heroic than they could meet in France Henry III and Bassompierre, feeling not give in to obstacles, indeed, far from that, gave birth to great things."

"Nothing in the world is beautiful, admirable like the English countryside."

"Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair."

"On the 15th of May, 1796, General Bonaparte made his entry into Milan at the head of that young army which had shortly before crossed the Bridge of Lodi and taught the world that after all these centuries Caesar and Alexander had a successor."

"On the other hand in America, in the Republic, to spend the whole Has one day weary Serious paying court to the shopkeepers in the street, and must become as stupid as They are; and there, no one Has Opera."

"One way is it less beautiful because there are thorns in the bushes on the edges? Traveller move on and leave thorns abominable to rebegeasc? way."

"One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion."

"Owning nothing, is to enjoy that does everything."

"Peasant finesse overcame the fineness of the rich man who did not need to live ."

"Pendants have for two thousand years reiterated the notion that women have a more lively spirit, men more solidity; that women have more delicacy in their ideas and men greater power of attention. A Paris idler who once took a walk in the Versailles Gardens concluded that, judging from all he saw, the trees grow ready trimmed."

"Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all."

"She phrased it masterfully, displaying the steadiness that was acting as if it were struggling to wrap itself in politeness."

"Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words."

"Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and the popular mind gives that bad habit of being suspicious, the church of France seems to have realised that its books have real enemies ."

"Some things that Napoleon said of women, several discussiions on the merit of fashionable novels under his reign gave unto him for the first time, some ideas than any other young man of his age would have had a long time."

"The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage."

"The dinner was indifferent and the conversation irritating. "It's like the table of contents of a dull book," thought Julien. "All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.""

"The duel is just a ceremony. Everything is known beforehand, even what to say when you fall. Lying on the grass, honestly, should utter words magnanimous forgiveness for the opponent and a few sentences to imaginary girlfriend, or on the day of his death goes to the ball as not to arouse suspicion."

"The greatest misfortune in prison is that you cannot lock the door."

"The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God."