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• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  Madame de Stael

  Happiness, Sweet, Nature

  "A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness" collected and translated by J. D. Finod, (p. 138), 1880.

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• To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

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  Men, Brotherhood, Together

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• Love is the symbol of eternity.

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  Love, Love Is, Eternity

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• The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

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  Men, Eras, Obscure

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• Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

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  Sports, Art, Enemy

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• Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

  Madame de Stael

  God, Thinking, Increase

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• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Public Opinion, Faces

  "Delphine". Book by Madame de Stael, 1802.

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• However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

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  Love, Flower, Winter

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• Music revives the recollections it would appease.

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  Music, Recollection, Revive

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book IX, Chapter II, 1807.

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• We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

  Madame de Stael

  Sympathy, Condolences, Hands

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• Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

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  Depth, Attention, Originality

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

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• Speech happens to not be his language.

  Madame de Stael

  Speech, Language, Happens

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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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• When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

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  Love, Nature, Men

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• The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him.

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  Character, Men, Judging

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• [Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

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  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, Reputation, Situation

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• When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

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  Ambition, Men, Political

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• If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

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  Imagination, Looks, Four

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• Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

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  Mean, Blessing, Winning

  "Corinne". Book by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Bk. 16, ch. 1, 1807.

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• I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

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  Believe, Future, Years

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• Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

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  Meditation, Mind, Criticism

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• I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

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  Rowing, Graves, Port

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• It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

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  Sympathy, Art, Dear Ones

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• [Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

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  Believe, Laughing, Feelings

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