Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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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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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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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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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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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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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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