We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELMen err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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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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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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