The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAEL
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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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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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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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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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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 more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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