When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
MADAME DE STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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 STAELWe cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAELThe sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELThat past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
MADAME DE STAELThe more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAELThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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 STAELInnocence 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.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELThe 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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