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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
Diarist
Literary Critic
Politician
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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Humans
Generosity
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Morality
Kindness
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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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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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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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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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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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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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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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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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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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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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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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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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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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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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