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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.
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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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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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
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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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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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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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Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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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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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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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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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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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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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
Madame de Stael
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 egotism of woman is always for two.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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