Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELThe 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.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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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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Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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