Madame de Stael
Writer
1766-04-22
Quotes by Madame de Stael
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.
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The more we know, the better we forgive; Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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Genius has no sex!
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The greatest happiness is to transform ones feelings into actions.
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Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
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One must choose in life between boredom and torment.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.
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