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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
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Literary Critic
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Salonnière
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Paris
France
Madame de Staël
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Mme de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine
Mme de Staël-Holstein
Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Anne-Louise Germaine Necker
Germaine de Staël-Holstein
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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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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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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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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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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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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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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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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