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Madame de Stael [1766-1817] French
Rank: 101
Writer, Woman of letters


Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

Love, Age, Art, Fear, Happiness, History, Men, Strength, Women



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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. History
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
102
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. Men, Women
103
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. Love
104
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
105
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
106
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. Art
107
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. Love
108
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Age
109
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. Fear
110
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action. Happiness
111
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
112
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
113
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
114
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
115
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
116
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
117
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. Strength
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
120
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
121
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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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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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
124
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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