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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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
Happiness
Happy
Piety
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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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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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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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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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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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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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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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 more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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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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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
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