The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAELWit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
More Madame de Stael Quotes
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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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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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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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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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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