A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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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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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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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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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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Speech happens to not be his language.
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