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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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
Writer
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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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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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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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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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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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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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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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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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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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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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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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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