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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
Morality
Poetry
Politics
Religion
Pursuit
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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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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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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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 education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
Madame de Stael
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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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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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
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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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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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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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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
Madame de Stael
Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
Madame de Stael
Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
Madame de Stael
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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