Stendhal Quote

Why does he not know how to select servants? 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.


Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)


Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters...

Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters...

Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters...

Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters...