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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
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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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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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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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Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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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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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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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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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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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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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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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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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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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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