Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAELSow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELTo be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAELMen err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAELA man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELWhen a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
MADAME DE STAELThe more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAELInnocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELLove is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
MADAME DE STAELThat past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELWit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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