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Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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
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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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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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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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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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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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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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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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