Madame de Stael Quotes

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• Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

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  Giving, Charity, Fountainhead

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• The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Dog

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• Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

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  Forgiveness, Understanding, Forgiving

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• 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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  Men, Progress, Moral

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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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  Men, Desire, He Man

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• One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

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  Boredom, Choices, Suffering

  Madame de Stael's letter to Claude Hochet (Summer 1800) as quoted in J. Christopher Herold "Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael" (p. 223), 1958.

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• Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

  Madame de Stael

  Men

  "Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP". Book by Victor Gold, April 19, 2007.

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• Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

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  Love, Heart, Mind

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• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

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  Motivational, Happiness, Feelings

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• No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

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  War, Blood, May

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• Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

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  Real, Destiny, Giving

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• We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

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  Love, Death, Hands

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• Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

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  Enemy, Doe, Force

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• What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

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  Character, What Matters, Matter

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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  Peace, Truth, War

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• As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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  Wisdom, Prison, Pardon

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• Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

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  Enthusiasm

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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  Aggravation, Age, Noble

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• I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

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  Men, Should Have, Should

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• When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

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  Prejudice, Needs, Virtue

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 484, 1895.

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• [To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

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  Cutting, Politics, Reason

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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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  Love, Men, Episodes

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• When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

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  Men, Weakness, Hardness

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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  Art, Courtesy, Manners

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• It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

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  Forgiving, Forget, Enough

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