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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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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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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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[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 sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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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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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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