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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.
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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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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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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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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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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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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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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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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