One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELThe sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAELThe more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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 STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELWit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELGenius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELA man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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