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I learn life from the poets.
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
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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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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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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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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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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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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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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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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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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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