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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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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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Who understands much, forgives much.
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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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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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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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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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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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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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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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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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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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