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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
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Paris
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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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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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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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I learn life from the poets.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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