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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.
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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
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Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
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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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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
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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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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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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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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.
Madame de Stael
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
Madame de Stael
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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