Madame de Stael Quotes

• Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Enthusiasm

• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Failure, Life

  Tags in Mystery

• Whatever is natural admits of variety.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Diversity

• Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity

• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Genius, Power

• The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. (L’esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais c’est progres en spirale.)

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Change/Growth

• 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.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Ethics, School

• Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Love, Memory

  Tags in Ending, Time, Beginning

• The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Feeling

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Love, Truth

  Tags in Heart

• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Duty

• Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Faith, Weakness

• Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Will

• Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Women, Men

• As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Change/Growth

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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