Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELMen err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAELThe more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAELThe desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELThe 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.
MADAME DE STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAELSow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAELWhen a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
MADAME DE STAELInnocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELWit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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