Madame de Stael Quotes

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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de Stael

Mind, Human, Makes

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame de Stael

Ourselves, Loving, Loves

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.
Madame de Stael

Strength, Self, Prayer

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.
Madame de Stael

Power, Him, Moral

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 Stael

Love, Time, Fear

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael

Life, Suffering, Between

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Madame de Stael

Life, Struggle, Religious

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de Stael

Art, Thoughts, Among

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Madame de Stael

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael

Life, Love, History

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael

Women, Men, Weak

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael

Truth, Duty, Search

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de Stael

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de Stael

Woman, Opinion, Face

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael

Heart, True, Nothing

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael

Power, Genius, Both

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael

Between, Mystery, Existence

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael

Creative, Genius, Individual

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael

Good, Sweet, Grow

Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de Stael

Language, Speech, Happens

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael

Happiness, Greatest, Feelings

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael

God, Sense, Word

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 Stael

Impossible, Easy, Conscience

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de Stael

Makes, Totally, Indulgent

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael

Between, Lies, Difference

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: April 22, 1766

Died: July 14, 1817

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