In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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 STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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 STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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 more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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 STAELThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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 STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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 STAEL