Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Meditation, Mind, Criticism

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Sympathy, Art, Dear Ones

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

  Madame de Stael

  Rowing, Graves, Port

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Believe, Laughing, Feelings

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• Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Mystery, Penetration, Given

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• Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Flames

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• Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
  [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Men, Episodes

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• Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

  Madame de Stael

  Truth, Men, Liberty

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• Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

  Madame de Stael

  Religious, Sacrifice, Desire

  "Life of Madame de Staël" by Abel Stevens, (Ch. XXXIV), 1880.

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• Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Effort, Attention

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• Whatever is natural admits of variety.

  Madame de Stael

  Natural, Variety

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• To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Sadness, Yield, Sorrow

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• [The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

  Madame de Stael

  Europe, Energy, Rudeness

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• The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

  Madame de Stael

  Politics, Morality, Pursuit

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• And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

  Madame de Stael

  Travel, Destiny, Departure

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book X, Chapter VI, 1807.

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• women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

  Madame de Stael

  Women, Ends, Existence

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• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  Madame de Stael

  Prayer, Self, Meditation

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• Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Imagination, Faculty

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• Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.

  Madame de Stael

  Courage, Soul, Triumph

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• A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

  Madame de Stael

  Fall, Glasses, Light

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• Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Freedom, Blood

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• How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

  Madame de Stael

  Past

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• Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

  Madame de Stael

  Writing, Would Be, Genius

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• The egotism of woman is always for two.

  Madame de Stael

  Two, Egotism

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• Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

  Madame de Stael

  Self, Causes, Sensitive

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