Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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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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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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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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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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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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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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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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