Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 2

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• Nothing recalls the past like music.

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  Music, Past, Recalls

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• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

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  Teaching, Understanding

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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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• The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

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  Different, World, Way

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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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• Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

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  Poetry, Apotheosis, Poetry Is

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• Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

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  Kindness, Generosity, Morality

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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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• It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

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  Age, Difficult, Grows

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• Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

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  Religious, Heart, Feelings

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

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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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• the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

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  Age, Lasts, Steps

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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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• Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

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  Mail, Exile, Tombs

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• The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

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  Music, Memories, Regret

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• New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

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  Doctrine, World, Fancy

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• Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

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  Men, Feminism, Talent

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

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• Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

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  Life, Men, Alive

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• Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

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  Wrath, People, Politics

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• Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

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  Learning, Mind, Progress

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

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• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

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  Broken Heart, Matter, Improbable

  Madame de Stael's letter to Juliette Recamier (October 5, 1810) as quoted in J. Christopher Herold "Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael" (p. 401), 1958.

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• Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

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  Character, May, Strongest

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• I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.

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  Happiness, Believe, Destiny

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• Life, for me, is living among my friends.

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  Friends, My Friends

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• Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Character

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