More from Madame de Stael
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael 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.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael That 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 StaelMadame de Stael Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael 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.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
Al FrankenAl Franken It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
Al FrankenAl Franken There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
Al FrankenAl Franken Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
Al BernsteinAl Bernstein The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
Akbar GanjiAkbar Ganji They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos.
Ai YazawaAi Yazawa I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn’t matter much. But people want to label everything… So I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
Ai YazawaAi Yazawa We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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