Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
MADAME DE STAELGenius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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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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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
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The 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.
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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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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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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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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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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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