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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael 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.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael
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