Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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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 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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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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