The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELA man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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