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Madame De Stael Inspirational Quotes (102)

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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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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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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
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I learn life from the poets.
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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
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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 Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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