Madame de Stael Quotes

• Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things, which differ, and the difference between things, which are alike.

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  Topics in Humor

• We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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  Topics in Love

• To understand everything makes one very indulgent.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand

• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

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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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  Topics in God

• The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Desire

• Speech happens to not be his language.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

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  Tags in Strength

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

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  Topics in Life

• Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

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  Tags in Women

• 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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  Topics in Love, Memory

• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

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  Topics in Life, Religion

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinion

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

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  Tags in Conscience

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courtesy, Choice, Choosing

• Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

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  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

  Tags in Enemies, Difficulties

• Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Character, Duty, Enthusiasm, Conscience

• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Creativity

Madame de Stael (35)

Birth:	22nd April, 1766
Death:	14th July, 1817
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Writer

About

Germaine de Stael was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.

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