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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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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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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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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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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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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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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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