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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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
Poetry
Politics
Religion
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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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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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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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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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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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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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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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 world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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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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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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