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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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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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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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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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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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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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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I learn life from the poets.
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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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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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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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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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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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