Madame de Stael quotes
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“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.”
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“As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.”
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“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”
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“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”
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“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.”
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“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
-- Madame de StaelSource : "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.
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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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“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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“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”
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“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
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“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
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“Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”
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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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“Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.”
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“The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.”
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“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
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“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”
-- Madame de StaelSource : "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.
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“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
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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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“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
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“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
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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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“Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.”
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“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”
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“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”
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“Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving ...”
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“Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.”
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“Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.”
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“Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.”
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“The egotism of woman is always for two.”
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“The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.”
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“Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.”
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“The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.”
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“Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.”
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“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.”
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“The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.]”
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“It is difficult to grow old gracefully.”
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“Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”
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“Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.”
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“The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.”
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“That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.”
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“A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.”
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“The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.”
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“Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.”
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“When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.”
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