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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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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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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
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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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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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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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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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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 more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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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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