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 STAELIn matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAELSpeech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAELThe greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAELPoliteness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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 STAELWhen one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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 STAELOne must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAELThe human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAELGenius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAELA religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAELWit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
MADAME DE STAELScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
MADAME DE STAELThe 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 STAELWit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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