Madame de Stael Quotes
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad.
(1766 - 1817)
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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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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
[Genius]
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.
[Love]
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
[Love]
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
[Life]
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
[Politeness]
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
[Prayer]
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
[Truth]
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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
[Action]
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
[Men]
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