When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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 STAELSearch for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELTo be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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 STAELThe desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAELGenius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAELA man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
MADAME DE STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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