To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAELTo be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAELSow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAELThe more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAELMen err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELInnocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
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 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 STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAELPrayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
MADAME DE STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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