When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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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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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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 more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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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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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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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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