The 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.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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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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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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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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