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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
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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Enthusiasm
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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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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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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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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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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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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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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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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
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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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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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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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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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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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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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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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