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• Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

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  Angel, Love Is, Eternity

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• 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.

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  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Voice, Political

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

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• The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

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  Men

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• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

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  Two, Diversity, Mind

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• Who understands much, forgives much.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving

  "All about Almodovar", www.theguardian.com. August 25, 1999.

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• Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

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  Ethics, Morality, Guides

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• That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

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  Past, Precedent

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• Prayer is the life of the soul.

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  Prayer, Soul

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• The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

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  Men, Order, Want

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• Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

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  Literature, Taste

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• Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

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  Lying, Differences, Different

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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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• intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

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  Intelligence, Sin, Intellect

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• I learn life from the poets.

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  Poet

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• Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

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  Powerful, Men, Order

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• [On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

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  Mean, Greatness, Russia

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• The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

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  Heart, Mind, Calm

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• Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

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  Mind, Firsts, Purity

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• Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

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  Land, Rich, Satisfied

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• Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

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  Details, Providence, Protect

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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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• Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

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  Prayer, Pride, Secret

  "Sketch of the Life, Character, and Writings of Baroness de Stael-Holstein". Book by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, 1820.

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• Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

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  Men, Selfishness, Weak

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• Be happy, but be happy through piety.

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  Happiness, Piety

  "Corinne" (1807), Book XX, Chapter III, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 350-52, 1922.

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