The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAELThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAELSow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAELSearch for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAELThe more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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 STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
MADAME DE STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAELGenius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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 STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
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 STAEL