Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 2

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

  Madame de Stael

  Voyages, Companionship, Pleasure

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Music, Memories, Regret

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

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Lasts, Steps

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

  Madame de Stael

  Mail, Exile, Tombs

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

  Madame de Stael

  Lying, Resemblance Is, Differences

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

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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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• 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.

  Madame de Stael

  Doctrine, World, Fancy

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Disappointment, Long, And Love

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

  Madame de Stael

  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?

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Men, Alive

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

  Madame de Stael

  Forgiving, Forget, Enough

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Wrath, People, Politics

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• It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Difficult, Grows

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  War, Blood, May

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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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• 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?

  Madame de Stael

  Sight, Opposites, Afterlife

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Learning, Mind, Progress

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

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Happiness, Believe, Destiny

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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?

  Madame de Stael

  Character, May, Strongest

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• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

  Madame de Stael

  Teaching, Understanding

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

  Madame de Stael

  Friends, My Friends

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• The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

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  Possibility, Know How, Knows

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• The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Heart, Mind

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