Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAELSearch for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELA man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAELInnocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
MADAME DE STAELWit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
MADAME DE STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELLove is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELMen err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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 STAEL