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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• Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

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  Enthusiasm

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

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

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  Forgiveness, Understanding, Forgiving

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

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  Motivational, Happiness, Feelings

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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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• 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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• Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

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

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  Wisdom, Prison, Pardon

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• We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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  Love, Ifs, Cease

  "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.

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• Nothing recalls the past like music.

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  Music, Past, Recalls

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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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• A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

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  Voyages, Companionship, Pleasure

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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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• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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  Art, Courtesy, Manners

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• Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

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  Disappointment, Long, And Love

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• Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

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  Poetry, Apotheosis, Poetry Is

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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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  Lying, Resemblance Is, Differences

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

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

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  Forgiving, Forget, Enough

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• Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

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  Sight, Opposites, Afterlife

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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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