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Madame De Stael Inspirational Quotes (102)

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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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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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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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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
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Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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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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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
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