The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAELThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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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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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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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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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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