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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
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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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Generosity
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Morality
Kindness
Action
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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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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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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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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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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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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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