The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAELThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAELSearch for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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 STAELMen err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAELSow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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 STAELThe checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAELTo be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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 STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELPrayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
MADAME DE STAELInnocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELA man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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