Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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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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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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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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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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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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