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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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
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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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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
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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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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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I learn life from the poets.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
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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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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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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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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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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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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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