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Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

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
Femme
Episode
Episodes
Woman
History
Men
Hommes
Love
Dans
Life
Amour

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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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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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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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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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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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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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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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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