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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
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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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Morality
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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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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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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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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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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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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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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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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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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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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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