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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
Writer
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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Morality
Kindness
Action
True
Form
Human
Humans
Generosity
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Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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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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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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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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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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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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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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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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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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