Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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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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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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