Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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 sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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