Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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 checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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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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