The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELGenius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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