A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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The 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.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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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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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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