Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAELGenius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELThe sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
MADAME DE STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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 STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELThe desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
MADAME DE STAELThe more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELThe 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.
MADAME DE STAELWit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
MADAME DE STAELA man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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