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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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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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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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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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I learn life from the poets.
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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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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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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, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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