Speech happens to not be his language.
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 STAELTo be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAELInnocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELThat 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 STAELThe sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
MADAME DE STAELPrayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELLove 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 STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAELThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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